Spring ISD outlines plan to reduce disciplinary infractions and address disproportionality
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Summary
District leaders presented a discipline update that sets a goal of a 10% decrease in overall infractions and in suspensions among African American and special-education students; officials described weekly monitoring, root-cause work and parent-facing interventions.
Spring ISD’s discipline team presented quarterly data and a set of interventions March 10 aimed at reducing disciplinary infractions and narrowing disproportionality.
Executive Director Eric Tingle showed historical PEIMS data and said the district will track progress against three 10% reduction goals this year: total disciplinary infractions, suspension rates for African American students and suspension rates for special-education students. "If we're going to have a goal at the end of the year, we wanted to 1) name that goal and 2) track where we are right now compared to that goal so we can put interventions in place," Tingle said.
Staff described weekly monitoring, revised campus visibility plans, a "one-stop" resource hub for discipline procedures, and partnerships with MTSS and mental-health teams. They also detailed tiered, parent-facing interventions (for example, interactive education for vaping incidents) to keep students engaged and create restorative pathways that replace some out-of-school suspensions.
Trustees pressed for deeper analysis into root causes of higher suspension rates among African American students, asked whether staff responsible for submitting referrals are monitored for outlier behavior, and requested more campus-level breakouts and quality-indicator data to measure intervention effectiveness.
Next steps: The district said weekly monitoring will continue, the ad hoc board special-education committee will receive more frequent data, and the discipline update will return to the board with additional analysis and proposed metrics.
