Reducing Student Classroom Removals

Overview

To ensure that all children receive a high quality education, and to close the achievement gap between children meeting the challenging State academic standards and those children who are not meeting such standards, each local educational agency plan shall describe how the local educational agency will support efforts to reduce the overuse of discipline practices that remove students from the classroom, which may include identifying and supporting schools with high rates of discipline, disaggregated by each of the subgroups of students.

Statute from ESEA as amended through P.L. 114-95, enacted December 10, 2015 (ESSA)

To ensure that all children receive a high quality education, and to close the achievement gap between children meeting the challenging State academic standards and those children who are not meeting such standards, each local educational agency plan shall describe:

  • how the local educational agency will support efforts to reduce the overuse of discipline practices that remove students from the classroom, which may include identifying and supporting schools with high rates of discipline, disaggregated by each of the subgroups of students. 1112(b)(11)

An eligible school operating a schoolwide program shall develop a comprehensive plan (or amend a plan for such a program that was in existence on the day before the date of the enactment of the ESSA:

  • address the needs of all children in the school, but particularly the needs of those at risk of not meeting the challenging State academic standards, through activities which may include:
    • counseling, school-based mental health programs, specialized instructional support services, mentoring services, and strategies to improve students' skills outside the academic subject areas 1114(b)(7)(A)(iii)(I)
    • implementation of a school tiered model to prevent and address problem behavior, and early intervening services, coordinated with similar activities and services carried out under IDEA 1114(b)(7)(iii)(III)

To assist targeted assistance schools and local educational agencies to meet their responsibility to provide for all their students served under this part the opportunity to meet the challenging State academic standards, each targeted assistance program shall:

  • serve participating students identified as eligible children under subsection (c), including by:
    • using methods and instructional strategies to strengthen the academic program of the school through activities, which may include:
      • a school tiered model to prevent and address behavior problems, and early intervening services, coordinated with similar activities and services carried out under IDEA 1115(b)(2)(B)(ii)


This site was produced by the Title I Capacity Building Initiative at Region 10 ESC and funded by the Texas Education Agency.

Region 10 Program Coordinator - Toni Garrett toni.garrett@region10.org 972-348-1488