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EEAC reviews bias-incident and hate-speech data, raises questions about definitions and small-group percentages
Summary
During its March 31 meeting the EEAC examined district bias-incident and hate-speech reports, discussed differences between elementary and secondary reporting, asked for raw counts to accompany percentages, and flagged overrepresentation concerns for some small demographic groups.
Members of the Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J Equity & Engagement Advisory Committee spent a portion of the March 31 meeting reviewing the district’s quarterly bias-incident, hate-speech and school-climate data and raised questions about how the data are collected and presented.
Chair Jacob DeGrama directed members to the EEAC shared folder that contains school-by-school PDFs and a district worksheet for comments. Committee members were asked to focus on the school climate section of each PDF, which includes major office discipline referrals (ODRs), bullying/harassment counts, bias incidents and hate speech, and a new page with student violence ODRs.
Zinnia Un, the district’s Director of Equity and Inclusion and Multilingual…
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