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Kentucky Safe Schools
Project: Report 3 |
Safe Schools Data
Report 3 provides school district data regarding law
and board violations and the disciplinary
consequences that result from these violations.
Richmond, KY (April 24, 2001)
The Center for School Safety will release its third
and final report on 1999-2000 school safety data on
April 24, 2001. State law (KRS 158.444) requires
that public schools report law and board violations
and consequences annually to the Kentucky Department
of Education. The Kentucky Department of Education
then sends this data to the Center for School Safety
to analyze and report annually about safety in the
schools.
Report 1 (requires Acrobat Reader), released in
December, summarized state and regional data while
comparing the previous year’s data.
Report 2 (requires Acrobat Reader), released in
February, provided a more refined analysis of state
data in relation to grade level, gender, race and
school attendance.
Report 3 provides school district data regarding law
and board violations and the disciplinary
consequences that resulted from these violations.
This data should provide each school district with
critical information necessary to assist district
personnel in updating its safe schools plan.
Please note the following features of this report:
With the exception of the raw data reported in
section 2 of this report, the data tables are based
on rates per 100 students of district disciplinary
consequences or incidence. This standard scale of
measurement was established to make valid
comparisons across school districts, or in relation
to regional and state norms.
This report will not release data for school
districts with less than 10 African-American
students enrolled. The Center did not want to
release data that could become personally
identifiable, which would clearly violate the Family
Education Rights to Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
Native American, Asian, Hispanic and other racial
groups are not reported at the district level
because their numbers are so small in most counties
that this would make them “personally
identifiable”—thus violating FERPA.
Section 4 reflects White and African-American rates
(per 100) of violations resulting in disciplinary
consequences with statewide data noted at the top of
each chart. This data is arranged by size of the
school districts for comparison purposes.
This current set of data has been more refined and
thus deemed more reliable than the previous data.
This is due to continued clarification of the
process and familiarity with the Data Collection
Instrument. This year’s report will serve as the
baseline from which more specific comparisons can be
made in years to come.
The Center will receive 2000-01 school data later
this summer and will be reporting comparison data in
the late fall and early winter.
The Center wishes to express appreciation to
R.E.A.C.H. (Resources for Education Adaptation
Change and Health) of Louisville, Inc. for its
assistance with statistical analysis of the data for
all three published reports.
Please note correction as of 4/25/01" : State
comparison rates for
expulsion shown in Chapter 4 (pp. 37-46) have been
corrected for
misplaced decimal point.
For web-friendly Report 3 (requires Acrobat
Reader)
For print-friendly Report 3 (requires Acrobat
Reader)
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