Reply to July 24 - Maryland Board of Education Backs Race-Based Quota-System for School Discipline

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[quote=jsteele]The original poster of this thread is spreading disinformation. That poster has obviously not read the report to which the poster linked in the original post. Since that poster did not take the trouble to read the report, I will save that poster and other posters a lot of trouble. Here is the key language regarding racial discrepancy in suspensions:

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.21  Reducing and Eliminating Disproportionate Impact 
A. The Department shall develop a method to analyze local school system discipline 
data to determine whether there is a disproportionate impact on minority students.  
B. The Department may use the discrepancy model to assess the impact of discipline on 
special education students.
C. If the Department identifies a school’s discipline process as having a 
disproportionate impact on minority or special education students, the local school system 
shall prepare and present to the State Board a plan to reduce the disproportionate impact 
within 1 year and eliminate it within 3 years.
D.  The local school system will report annually its progress to the State Board.[/quote]

This is the very last paragraph in the report at:

http://msde.state.md.us/School_Discipline_Report02272012.pdf

Notice that at this point the school system would only be required to study whether there is a disproportionate impact to minority and special education students. There is no requirement for a race-based system to be put in place. The original poster is completely wrong about that and has done the DCUM community a disservice by spreading misinformation. But, I guess if you rely on the Daily Caller, that is to be expected. 
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