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District presents plan to address suspension disproportionality, cites trauma and mobility factors

Oak Park–River Forest School District 200 Board of Education · December 5, 2025
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Summary

District staff presented a state improvement plan targeting incidents leading to out‑of‑school suspension, highlighting trauma‑informed screening (Panorama), MTSS coordination and challenges with small sample sizes for disproportionality analysis. Board members asked for clearer language and data comparability.

District leaders presented the third year of a state improvement plan aimed at reducing incidents that result in out‑of‑school suspension and addressing racial disproportionality.

Presenters said the plan moves the district from reactive metrics (percent suspended) toward reducing the number of incidents that lead to suspension. In the presentation the administration cited a baseline described as the 2022–23 year with “51 incidents” and later discussed more recent counts; in subsequent discussion board members and staff noted small…

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