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Suffolk schools see localized spikes in referrals; district deploys behavior specialists and targeted supports
Summary
District administrators identified spikes of discipline referrals in particular grade levels and a handful of schools, tied the increases to small groups of students and staffing patterns, and described targeted coaching, behavior groups and bus monitoring to address the issues.
Suffolk Public Schools administrators told the board on March 13 that overall discipline counts have generally fallen in recent years but a small number of schools and grade levels are showing concentrated increases this semester and the district is deploying targeted responses.
Dr. Rodney Brown, chief of administrative services, said one elementary school’s first semester referrals rose substantially but that the increase traced largely to about 15 students…
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