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Austin ISD board accepts monitoring report on exclusionary discipline; administration pledges data tracking and restorative approaches
Summary
Administration reported progress toward a board target reducing disproportionate exclusionary discipline for economically disadvantaged students (current rate ~73%), presented root causes and next steps (MTSS expansion, alternatives to suspension, discipline conference), and trustees approved the monitoring report after extensive questioning about "shadow" discipline and granular data.
Austin ISD administrators presented the board's first monitoring report for Constraint Progress Measure 1.2, which targets the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline (ISS/OSS/ALC) for students identified as economically disadvantaged.
Brandy Gratton, director of discipline standards and accountability, said the district's progress-monitoring discipline rate for economically disadvantaged students stood at 73% (data through Nov. 3), under the year's target of 78% and moving in the direction of the long-term goal of 67% by August 2029. Gratton explained the CPM focuses on discretionary offenses…
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