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Oak Park–River Forest board hears midyear discipline report, district will submit state-required improvement plan
Summary
District staff presented a midyear discipline improvement report showing 51 incident reports in school year 2022–23 and 22 in 2023–24; administrators said the state submission focuses on metrics and strategies and that the district will bring a more comprehensive analysis to the board later this year.
Oak Park–River Forest School District 200 administrators presented a midyear discipline improvement plan in the Committee of the Whole on Thursday and said they will submit a version of the plan to the Illinois State Board as required by state reporting rules, then return to the board with a fuller analysis.
The plan, which district staff said the board “has seen a year ago,” tracks discipline incidents over a three-year period to examine racial disproportionality in out-of-school suspension and expulsion. Administrators told the board the district recorded 51 discipline incidents in the 2022–23 school year and 22 incidents in 2023–24; staff said those counts are incident records and that staff can pull separate counts of unique students involved upon request.
Why it matters: Illinois requires districts that meet criteria tied to disproportionality to file a…
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