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Meeting Date:
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9/24/2020 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Report of the Committee on Parent and Community Engagement
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Action
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Subject:
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3. Action on the Submission of End of Year Report to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
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Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
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Goal 1 Academic Achievement
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Attachments
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1. July 2020 OCR Report
2. Presentation
3. Motion by Director Miller as Amended
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File Attachment:
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Background:
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In 2014-15, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) conducted a biennial review of data and discovered a disproportionality of African American students receiving referrals, suspensions and other disciplinary actions. The Administration has been working with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to fulfill ten agreed upon action items to ensure the equity of discipline measures within the District and in compliance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000d (Title VI), and its implementing regulation, 34 C.F.R. Part 100, which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, or national origin by a recipient of Federal financial assistance.
In alignment with our ongoing work to improve disciplinary practices, supports for students and engaging staff, student, and community voice, an end of year report was submitted to The Office for Civil Rights on July 1, 2020. Attached you will find the official report as submitted, as well a presentation.
To date, the district has made significant progress relative to the ten items in the report. The following is a summary of the steps the district has taken cumulatively since the start of the resolution, as well as an outline of the research-based plan being implemented going forward. More information available at mpsmke.com/discipline
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Fiscal Impact Statement:
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N/A
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Implementation and Assessment Plan
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Recommendation:
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Your Committee recommends that:
1. That the Board support the interventions and practices in the OCR Report of July 2020, and requires all MPS staff to make a concerted effort to significantly dismantle systems of racial and ethnic disproportionality and inequality.
2. The administration report monthly to the Board on the progress of the plan put forward in the July 1, 2020 report to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
3. That the monthly report will include the steps taken in each area outlined in the OCR report with benchmarks and timelines.
4. That the administration will develop a monthly report on referrals, demarcating suspensions and expulsions resulting from those referrals, to the Board similar to the 24 areas in the OCR report spelled out in section "e" titled "The analysis for behavior data for the 2019-2020 school year." The areas reported monthly will give an overall district summary of referrals, suspensions and expulsions--including comparison of Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, Asian and white students--along with a breakdown for each school, including non-instrumentality charter schools.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Jacqueline M. Mann, Ph.D. - Board Clerk/Chief Officer
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