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Board tussles over suspension-report detail as Van Hook pushes to restore school- and grade-level data
Summary
Board member Van Hook argued that removing school and grade fields from weekly suspension reports undermines oversight; district legal/privacy staff recommended aggregate school-level trend data to address FERPA concerns. The board discussed compromises but took no immediate policy change.
Debate over the level of detail provided in weekly suspension reports dominated part of the Higley Unified School District meeting as board member Van Hook pushed to restore school- and grade-level breakdowns she said are essential for oversight.
Van Hook told the board she had repeatedly requested restoration of the data and warned that without school and grade columns board members cannot "verify whether…
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