Findings and Conclusion of the Report Using multiple regression, the report finds that African American suspension rates predict the percent of students feeling unsafe in school hallways, such that higher African American suspension rates predict lower percentages of students feeling unsafe in school hallways, 4 of 12 and, conversely, lower African Ame. [...] The report opens with a partisan description of federal guidance on school discipline, referring to it as “woke” and “soft” and calling President Trump’s repeal of the 2014 Office of Civil Rights (OCR) School Discipline Guidance a “reprieve.”11 The report then takes up the question, “whether racism is the cause of greater suspension rates for African American students,” and cherry-picks cita- tion. [...] For instance, Vanderbilt’s Peabody Journal of Education dedicated an entire issue to reviewing the progress of discipline reform.18 At least 25 states and numerous schools and districts have introduced or passed legislation limiting the use of suspension and expulsion.19 The impacts of suspension policy changes have been mixed. [...] The first model considers the relationship between the per- centage of students who reported feeling unsafe in school hallways (“percent unsafe,” the outcome variable) and the following predictor variables: overall suspension rate, African American suspension rate, enrollment, percentage of low-income students, and “share” of disabled students.25 The second model is the same as the one above, but. [...] The report focuses exclusively on the African American suspension rate as a predictor of “percent unsafe,” and overlooks that the full models presented in the report explain only a small proportion of variance in students’ feelings of unsafety.
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