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Black and other racialized students are being expelled from Toronto schools because school trustees deciding their fates arent judges and dont have enough wiggle room, says Tiffany Ford.Though its up to principals to recommend expulsion, decisions are made by disciplinary hearings of trustees, who may find it hard to put their biases aside, said Ford, the Toronto District School Boards York West trustee. It doesnt come natural to everyone, she added, in an interview last week. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Though she believes anti-black racism plays a role 鈥?48 per cent of students the Toronto District School Board expelled in recent years were black 鈥?Ford said trustees have expelled students hoping to get them extra attention they need.Ontarios disciplinary rules say students can be expelled from a single school or from all schoo stanley cup price ls in the board, whereupon they are sent to special Caring and Safe schools. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Ford, however, said many of those students dont ever return to normal TDSB schools. Extra support should be give stanley cup n to them before theyre expelled, and the province should pay for that, she said.Elected to the board in 2014, Ford became TDSBs first black chair of the discipline hearing ever and found that some students facing expulsion are goin stanley cups g through a lot, and many have no parents to advocate for them. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Seoy Prosecutor: Shootings of 2 escaped prisoners were justified
FULTON, NY 鈥?All FCSD students in third grade through eighth grade had the opportunity to sit for NYS assessments earlier this school year.The results of such testing have recently become available to school officials. For the Fulton City School District stanley shop specifically, school officials stanley cupe have found reason to celebrate in the broad overview of the results.Executive director of instruction and assessment, Betsy Conners and director of instructional support services, Daniel Carroll presented the broad results to the board of education at the regular meeting held Tuesday August 9 with the intent to present a more in-depth look through each grade level at the boards next meeting August 23. The general overview of the results gave Conners and Carroll reason to celebrate both student and staff success.In the presentation, Conners and Carroll showed significant comparisons for the Fulton school district to districts throughout Oswego County, similar sized districts, identically categorized districts, as well as statewide results. placement_509781_0_iwidth:100%;margin:0 auto;For instance, the FCSD as a whole outperformed all other schools classified the same as Fulton based on the NYS Needs/Resource category Urban-Suburban High Needs Districts on all assessments.The district overall also saw a 5% increase in 3-8 ELA proficiency rate over last year movi stanley website ng from 21% proficient in 2015 to 26% proficient in 2016, a goal that had been set as a target for the Comprehensive District Edu |
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