by David Washburn, EdSource, June 11, 2019.
Butte County’s Oroville City Elementary School District, which has a suspension rate that is three times the statewide average, is under state investigation for its discipline policies and practices.
The investigation, by the California Bureau of Children’s Justice, is focused on the district’s record of suspending and expelling students and its alternatives to those punishments, according to a district statement. The statement also said the probe is examining the district’s “protections for foster and homeless youth,” but did not elaborate.
The Bureau of Children’s Justice is a division of the state Attorney General’s Office that enforces laws meant to protect vulnerable children. When contacted by a reporter, the Attorney General’s office said it “cannot comment on a potential or ongoing investigation.”
Students in the district, which serves the rural town of Oroville, lost more days to suspensions on a per-student basis than all but three California districts during the 2016-17 school year, according to a reportby the UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies. The district with the most days lost per student was Oroville Union High, the town’s only high school district.
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