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Advocates, DOE back more public data on manifestation‑determination reviews as council weighs local law
Summary
Intro. 13‑59, a proposed local law to require annual reporting on manifestation determination reviews (MDRs), won broad support from advocates and conditional support from DOE officials who said some relevant data are tracked but not publicly released. Advocates urged stronger disaggregation and additions to the bill.
The City Council committee heard narrow but consequential testimony on Intro. 13‑59, a local law proposed by Chair Rita Joseph that would require New York City Public Schools to publish annual data about manifestation determination reviews (MDRs) — the process that determines whether a student’s behavior was caused by a disability for the purposes of disciplinary protections.
Advocates including Advocates for Children, the Legal Aid Society, Legal Services NYC and the NYCLU told the committee MDRs are an essential safeguard but are currently opaque and inconsistently applied. Rohini Singh of Advocates for Children urged the council to "disaggregate data by community school district, not just by school, and by race, income, disability type, housing status and whether families had representation," saying that transparency would help…
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