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USBE outlines discipline-data outliers, disparities and new law-enforcement fields
Summary
State data staff shared state-level discipline metrics showing outliers and disparities by student group, urged LEAs to correct 'other' infraction coding, and announced new law-enforcement reporting fields and potential public-facing dashboards.
At the spring data conference, Wynn Schuder of the Utah State Board of Education described how incident and discipline data are being used statewide and flagged persistent quality issues that can distort metrics. "Serious consequences for students," Wynn said, arguing that accurate incident reporting is needed to identify disparities and target supports.
Wynn showed state review findings from school year 2023: 96% of LEAs reported incident data, 88% exceeded the minimum threshold of one incident per…
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