ERIC ED539425: Annual Report: Discipline, Crime, and Violence, Scho... | |
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The "Code of Virginia" requires school divisions | |
statewide to submit data to the Virginia Department of | |
Education (VDOE) on incidents of discipline, crime, and | |
violence (DCV). School divisions began reporting such | |
data in 1991. This annual report focuses primarily on DCV | |
data submitted for school year 2007-2008, with selected | |
comparisons to prior years. DCV data are used also to | |
complete federal reports required by the "Gun-Free | |
Schools Act of 1994" ("GFSA", Sec. 14061) and the | |
"Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA"). | |
"GFSA" requires annual reporting of the number of | |
students suspended or expelled statewide for possessing | |
or bringing firearms on school property; "IDEA" contains | |
requirements for reporting disciplinary actions involving | |
students with disabilities. Section 22.1-279.3:1, "Code | |
of Virginia," and the "Gun-Free Schools Act," Sec. 14061 | |
are included in Appendix A of this report. Virginia uses | |
incident-based reporting consistent with federal | |
standards. The reporting process employs a well-defined | |
set of nearly 130 offense codes and data elements that | |
are consistent with those recommended by the National | |
Center for Education Statistics and the National Forum on | |
Education Statistics. "Incidents" range in seriousness | |
from criminal acts that result in law enforcement action | |
to minor acts of misbehavior. A single incident may | |
involve more than one offense; an incident may also | |
involve multiple students and result in multiple | |
disciplinary actions. This report focuses on numbers of | |
incidents and numbers of disciplinary outcomes. Appended | |
are: (1) State and Federal Laws; (2) Offenses Required to | |
be Reported; (3) Offense Codes Used to Identify | |
Persistently Dangerous Schools; (4) Superintendent's | |
Memos; (5) All Incidents for All Regions by Offense | |
Codes, 2007-2008; and (6) Related Documents and | |
Information Resources. (Contains 1 chart, 29 tables and | |
40 footnotes.) [For "Annual Report: Discipline, Crime, | |
and Violence, School Year 2006-2007," see ED539426.] | |
Date Published: 2016-03-09 19:37:10 | |
Identifier: ERIC_ED539425 | |
Item Size: 61132745 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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