CCSD Educator to Present Data Alleging Underreporting of Student Discipline
LAS VEGAS (FOX5 Vegas) – A Clark County School District (CCSD) educator is raising concerns about the accuracy of reported student discipline data and plans to present his findings at a town hall this Saturday. Doctor Kyle Rogers, a teacher at Peterson Academic School – a behavioral school for middle and high school students – believes the district is underreporting the amount of time students are removed from classrooms.
Rogers, who has 11 years of experience in education and also works as a foster parent, argues that keeping students connected to school is crucial for their success. “I’ve seen how when you love on them… when you take care of them, when you don’t push them out, you continue to call them back in, they can thrive and they can succeed.And that’s what I want to see for all of our students,” he asserted.
While CCSD reports student discipline data regularly, with their last report delivered over the summer, Rogers contends the publicly available facts doesn’t paint a complete picture. According to associate Superintendent Kevin mcpartlin, the district is seeing “positive trends” with a ten percent decrease in total suspensions this year compared to the same period last year – approximately 2,200 fewer suspensions. This data is available on the CCSD website: https://aarsiapps.ccsd.net/datatransparency/district-overview.html.
rogers’ concern centers on instances where students are removed from campus for investigative purposes, a practice he claims isn’t reflected as a suspension in official data.”Sometimes the district will remove a kid for during an incident occurring and what the district claims is we need time to investigate the incident. And so, they say, ‘We’re going to wait, and you’re not allowed in the building for two days,'” Rogers explained.
he alleges this practice results in a significant amount of lost instructional time. ”Ther are thousands, really tens of thousands of suspensions. That isn’t showing up in the data that anyone knows about… Students are missing, collectively in a single school year based on the data, I have over 100,000 days of missed instruction,” Rogers stated. He believes this missed time negatively impacts standardized test scores and student engagement.
Rogers plans to present seven years of data, which he says is not currently public, at a town hall on Saturday, october 11th at 10 a.m. at the Clark County Library on Flamingo.
CCSD’s latest presentation on student discipline can be viewed starting at the 8:00 minute mark here: https://ccsd.eduvision.tv/play.aspx?qev=X3Y5NcZVhaCsGmlNWq5new%253d%253d.
