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Parents and advocates press Hillsborough board for discipline data, consistent instruction during exclusions
Summary
Multiple parents and community leaders told the Hillsborough County School Board that Black and Latino students are overrepresented in suspensions and alternative placements and urged monthly public data releases, a task force, and consistent academic work for students while excluded.
Jeanette Horch Smith, a parent and member of the district student code of conduct committee, told the Hillsborough County School Board that the district’s own records show Black students account for a disproportionate share of suspension days and described a case of a student who has missed 30 days of school this year because of repeated suspensions. "This is not a coincidence," she said, and asked the board to publish monthly discipline data disaggregated by race, provide every school a one-page advocacy guide for parents, and form a task force to reduce discipline disparities.
Other public speakers echoed…
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