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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.