California law says: public schools can’t suspend students for disobeying teachers. Joke? Nope. Take a read or listen to the news report from KRON TV. Will this creep to Washington State? Based on his past actions and his being a self proclaimed "social warrior" State Superintendent Chris Reykdal probably loves the idea. Wait...during his 3 year tenure he has put new rules in place that make it dramatically harder to discipline students or suspend them. Instead, if there are issues and a student should be suspended, they are now placed in a special classroom. This way the school district still gets money; the district and state can say there are fewer suspensions and use that to tell … [Read more...]
Things that will NOT happen in K-12 Education in Washington State in 2018
For those warriors who continue the fight here's our prognostication for what will NOT happen in Washington State in 2018...unless...we get off our duffs and press the legislature to act. Please prove us wrong. Item #1: Common Core will NOT go away...no matter what they call it. The State Superintendent is fully behind CC even though it has failed (even Bill Gates has admitted it and backed off funding). Both the Democrat and Republican Party Platforms call for CC to be tossed...but...it doesn't Item #2: Student privacy will NOT improve...indeed...there will be data breaches announced but only after investigation and then there will be all sorts of assurances nothing was really … [Read more...]
Battle Ground School District – Suspensions 2014-2015-2016
How many suspensions occur in your school district? How do you find out? How have they changed over time? We filed a Public Information Request with the Battle Ground School District asking them for data on suspensions by school for the three (3) most recent years. In the table below we share the information we received. In this blog story you will also find links to the actual data spreadsheets by year along with the “key” describing what the reason was for each suspension. We encourage you to do the same for your school district, assemble the information and share it with us for publication. This is NOT an attempt to say that the school district is doing a good or bad job. It’s not a … [Read more...]