The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and the Victor Valley Union High School District have reached a settlement in the case of discriminatory discipline practices toward Black students.
One of the OCR's findings was that these patterns caused a significant loss in learning time for the students being disciplined.
According to administrators, students, and teacher witnesses discipline was implemented in multiple areas like expulsions, truancy, suspensions, and issuance of law enforcement citations. The voluntary resolution agreement will require the district to revise its current discipline policies and procedures as well as train its staff to be knowledgeable about the new polices.
The district will also be required to develop a corrective action to ensure nondiscrimination with its student discipline.“I applaud the Victor Valley Union High School District’s commitment today to rectify the harms its discipline practices caused to Black students and to ensure nondiscrimination in school discipline going forward,” said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine E. Lhamon in a statement.
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