Zero Tolerance in Tennessee Schools [electronic resource] : An Update / Kim Potts, Bintou Njie and Ethel R. Detch.
As required by Tennessee law, this report examines the state's zero-tolerance disciplinary data collected by the Tennessee Department of Education for school years 1999-00, 2000-01, and 2001-02. The first section displays statewide zero-tolerance statistics. The second section focuses on the ze...
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| Summary: | As required by Tennessee law, this report examines the state's zero-tolerance disciplinary data collected by the Tennessee Department of Education for school years 1999-00, 2000-01, and 2001-02. The first section displays statewide zero-tolerance statistics. The second section focuses on the zero-tolerance statistics of Tennessee's five major urban systems. Both sections include data on the age, grade level, education status, gender, and race of zero-tolerance offenders; nature of violations; and disposition of offenses. The report contains the following conclusions, among others: Although zero-tolerance policies were implemented to deter students from committing specific offenses, zero-tolerance offenses have increased at a significantly faster rate than student enrollment. Less than 1 percent of all students attending Tennessee schools committed zero-tolerance offenses during each of the 3 school years examined. Drug offenses continue to be the largest category of zero-tolerance offenses. Most zero-tolerance offenders are male. Students in the ninth grade were three times more likely to commit a zero-tolerance offense that students in other grades. Most of the urban systems have expelled significant percentages of their zero-tolerance offenders without placement. (WFA) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED481971. Availability: Offices of Research and Education Accountability, Suite 1700, James K. Polk Building, 505 Deaderick Street, Nashville, TN 37243-0268. Tel: 615-401-7911; Fax: 615-532-9237; Web site: http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/orea/reports. For full text: http://www.comptroller.state.tn.us/orea/reports/zerotoler2003.pdf. |
| Physical Description: | 44 pages. |
| Audience: | Policymakers. |