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Advocates urge DESE to publish cross-tabulated discipline and special-education data
Summary
Nonprofits, legal advocates and student representatives told the committee that publishing cross-tabulated DESE data (race, disability, gender, income, ELL, homeless status) is essential to identify disparities and protect students, citing stark discipline gaps for Black girls and students with disabilities.
Witnesses representing Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Appleseed and other organizations urged the Joint Committee on Education to require the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to make cross-tabulated data publicly available so that stakeholders can analyze discipline and special-education outcomes across intersecting student identities.
Jovan Okunde, a disability equity and…
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