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The Economic Benefits of Equity Across California Schools (Website)

There is a compelling need to reform California’s K-12 system and for additional investment in disadvantaged and minority students that lag far behind, to address these challenges and to reduce systemic inequities. This brief summarizes an economic analysis of three specific – and related – issues facing California’s public school system: students’ failure to complete high school, chronic absenteeism, and disciplinary infractions.

The Disproportionality of Latinx Students in Special Education: The Growing Need to Build Relationships (ARTICLE)

This article discusses the overrepresentation of Latinx students in special education. It discusses the root causes of significant disproportionality for Latinx students, pre-referral process and data collection, deficit oriented perspectives and building relationships with student and families.

The Dimensions of School Discipline: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Measuring Discipline Patterns and Outcomes in Schools (Article)

The Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality

The Data Center for Addressing Significant Disproportionality (pronounced DEE-KAS-DEE) is a U.S. Department of Education-supported center dedicated to working with state and local education agencies to help build their capacity to identify and address significant disproportionality by more accurately collecting, reporting, analyzing, and using their IDEA data.

The California Practitioners’ Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities (PDF)

This guide emphasizes the importance of respecting and being responsive to student and family culture and language when developing programs, services, and instruction for English learners in the state who may have a disability that impacts their ability to learn.

The Black Families’ Guide for Talking about Racism (PDF)

How to prepare/have courageous conversations with African American children to live in a world that sees their Blackness as a threat and/or less than other human beings.

The BELE Framework (PDF)

The BELE Framework is a guide for transforming student experiences and outcomes. It’s designed to integrate across every part of the learning experience, from teaching and learning, schoolwide systems and structures, family, caregiver, and community partnerships, and district and state policies while anchoring students at the center.

The Assessment Data Journey (WEBPAGE)

This tool uses the metaphor of a road map to help both general and special education staff understand how assessment data is gathered, monitored, and submitted to the federal Office of Special Education Program. The importance of timely data reporting and the distinction between general and special education procedures are highlighted.

The Aftermath of Disproportionality Citations: Situating Disability-race Intersections in Historical, Spatial, and Sociocultural Contexts

The authors examined stakeholders responses to a number of citations on racial disparities. The authors discuss how a number of factors shape disability and discipline racial disparities in the district.The aftermath of disproportionality citations: Situating disability-race intersections in historical, spatial, and sociocultural contexts.

Teaching for Black Lives (Book)