State Performance Plan 2005-2012 - Part B - Arkansas Department Of Education Page 63

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Arkansas Department of Education Special Education Unit
Part B State Performance Plan
Furthermore, districts are analyzing their discipline data to assist in the identification of
students for school based mental health services.
A. Percent = the number of districts identified by the State as having significant discrepancies
FFY 2005
in the rates of suspensions and expulsions of children with disabilities for greater than 10
days in a school year divided by the number of districts in the State times 100: 7.60%.
In 2006, the unduplicated count of students suspended or expelled for greater than 10 days was
661. The focused monitoring suspension/expulsion trigger identified 23 or 9.06% of districts
for possible monitoring. Each district that triggers is required to include an action plan in the
district's submission of the Arkansas Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (ACSIP). To
address the localized concerns about suspension/expulsion, the monitoring staff works with the
districts to develop their ACSIP plans.
The Arkansas Department of Education collects all data elements at the student level; however,
prior to 2005-06 the Special Education Unit received aggregated data from APSCN—LEA
student counts greater than 10 days by race. In 2005-06 when the data were forwarded to the
SEU at the student level discipline data, as opposed to aggregated counts, the IDEA Data &
Research Office identified anomalies in the data set, such as:
1. there were more students than in previous years;
2. the field for reporting the number of “days” suspended was often blank;
3. APSCN did not have the “days” field as a required field
This analysis found that in the past when the SEU was sent aggregated data if the “day” field
was blank that incident was wasn’t included in the calculation. The IDEA Data & Research
Office worked with the APSCN Student Management System staff to implement a Phase I edit
to occur when a district attempts to submit their discipline with a blank “day” field when the
action taken resulted in an OSS or in school suspension; the district is blocked from submitting
until the field is corrected.
The change in the data collection and cleansing process identified 53.36% more student in
2005-06 than the aggregated data of 2004-05.
B. Percent = the number of districts identified by the State as having significant discrepancies
in the rates of suspensions and expulsions of children with disabilities by race ethnicity for
greater than 10 days in a school year divided by the number of districts in the State times
100: 5.91%.
In 2005-06, 5.91% or 15 districts were identified by the State as having significant
discrepancies in the rates of suspension and expulsions of children with disabilities by
race/ethnicity for greater than 10 days in a school year using the risk ratio methodology. Eleven
of the 15 districts were identified as having significant discrepancies in the rate of suspensions
and expulsions of black students and four districts for white (non-Hispanic students):
• American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.00%
• Asian/Pacific Islander 0.00%
• Black (non-Hispanic) 4.33%
• Hispanic or Latino 0.00%
• White (non-Hispanic) 1.57%
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