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 toโค present โhis findings at a town hall this Saturday. Doctor Kyle Rogers, a teacher atโค Peterson Academic School – a behavioral school for middle and high school students – believes theโ 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, arguesโค that keeping students connected toโ school is crucial for โฃtheir success. “I’ve seen how when you love โคonโค themโฆโค when you take care of them, when you don’t push themโ out, you continue to call them back in, they can thriveโ and they can succeed.And that’s what I want to see โfor 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 availableโค 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 sameโ period last year – approximately 2,200 fewer suspensions.โข This data is available on the CCSD website:โฃ https://aarsiapps.ccsd.net/datatransparency/district-overview.html.
rogers’ concern centers on instances where students areโ removed from โcampus for investigative purposes, a practice he claims isn’t reflected โฃas a suspension in official data.”Sometimes the โฃdistrictโ will remove a kid for during an incident occurringโค andโค what the district claims is we need time to investigate the incident. And so, they say, ‘We’re going to wait, and you’reโ not allowed in the building for โtwo days,'” โขRogers explained.
he alleges this practice โresults in a significant amount of lost instructional time. โ”Ther are thousands, really tens of thousands ofโ suspensions. That isn’t โshowing up in the data that anyone knowsโ about… Students areโค missing, collectively in a single school โyear based on the data, I have over 100,000 days of missed instruction,” Rogers stated. He believes this missed timeโค negatively impacts standardized test scores โขand student engagement.
Rogers plans toโ present sevenโ years โฃof data, which he says is not currently public, at a town hall on Saturday, october 11th at 10 โฃa.m. โคat the Clark County Library on Flamingo.
CCSD’s latest presentation on student discipline can be viewed starting atโ the 8:00 minute mark here: https://ccsd.eduvision.tv/play.aspx?qev=X3Y5NcZVhaCsGmlNWq5new%253d%253d.
