More on student discipline in Oakland -- and a list of suspension-free schools

Katy Murphy:

According to statistics provided by the Oakland school district (and crunched by your devoted education reporter):

TOTAL SUSPENSIONS in 2010-11: 6,137

TOTAL DAYS OF SCHOOL MISSED: 14,533

DEFIANCE ("disruption/defy authority") was the basis for 43 percent of all suspensions.

BLACK MALES made up less than 20 percent of all students in OUSD, but received about half of the suspensions.

At least two of the schools had more suspensions than students: Barack Obama Academy and Youth Empowerment School. YES (on the King Estates campus) closed in June, and Barack Obama Academy, an alternative middle school that opened on the Toler Heights campus in 2007, is slated to merge with Community Day.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 9, 2011 1:56 AM
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