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About the Data
Discipline data represents a subset of behavior and discipline type information which schools gather including:
- all expulsions, regardless of duration,
- in-school suspensions and interim alternative setting placements (IAES) for students with disabilities only, and
- Suspensions, in and out of school, and IAES removals where the student is removed for at least half of the regular school day.
Discipline data is used for State School Performance Report and Federal reporting to EDFacts and the Office of Special Education Programs. Discipline data is not collected from the Department of Corrections, Department of Health Services, or Choice schools.
Comparing Discipline Data across WISEdash Portals
The presentation of Discipline data in WISEdash for Districts and WISEdash Public are similar but vary in important ways. A limited subset of discipline data is available to the public. In particular, disciplinary actions which are gathered only for students with disabilities are excluded from WISEdash Public.
WISEdash for Districts - Disciplinary Incidents by Subgroup Dashboard
The ‘Total Student-Incident Occurrences’ chart is similar to the ‘Incident Rate’ chart in WISEdash Public. Note that WISEdash for Districts displays current student data while WISEdash Public displays certified data. This may result in minor differences in counts.
The ‘Percent of Students with Disciplinary Removals’ and ‘Students with 3 or More Incidents in a School’ charts in WISEdash for Districts are not directly comparable to a WISEdash Public chart. The WISEdash for Districts ‘Incidents Dynamic Crosstab’ with Columns: Primary Behavior and Rows: None is comparable to the WISEdash Public ‘Incident Count by Behavior’ chart.
WISEdash for Districts - Disciplinary Actions by Subgroup Dashboard
WISEdash for Districts and WISEdash Public may show significantly different removal counts. All removal types are combined on one chart in WISEdash for Districts. Out of School Suspension Rate and Expulsion Count are displayed as separate charts in WISEdash Public. In-school suspension and Interim Alternative Education Setting (IAES) Placement counts are not available in WISEdash Public. The District versus Public metrics for out of school suspension detail answer two different questions:
WISEdash for Districts: How many students are removed by out-of-school suspension?
WISEdash Public: What is the rate of total out-of-school suspensions over the total school population on third Friday of September?
The second question may return a significantly higher rate if some students in the district had multiple out-of-school suspensions. Such a student will count only once in the WISEdash for Districts chart (first question), while the same student will appear multiple times in the rate numerator in WISEdash Public (second question).
Click or hover over the All Students bar (58.6%) to view the student count for out-of-school student-suspensions. The ‘Days Removed by Type’ chart in WISEdash for Districts is not directly comparable to a WISEdash Public chart.
Discipline Incidents
You must associate each discipline incident with at least one student. Each student associated with the incident must have at least one identified behavior. The behaviors have very specific Federal definitions in four categories:
- weapons-related,
- drug- or alcohol-related,
- assault or endangering behavior, and
- violation of other school rules.
A student may exhibit multiple behaviors associated with a single incident, but only the primary, most severe behavior is used for reporting purposes. Only report a discipline incident to DPI, if it has at least one qualifying discipline action (removal). The disability reported for incidents in WISEdash is the current or end of year disability for the student. This can be different from the disability reported for the action taken.
Total Student-Incident Occurrences
This chart displays a comparison of the number of student-incident occurrences across the selected group. One single incident can include multiple students which count as multiple student-incident occurrences. One student can be involved in multiple incidents which also counts as multiple student-incident occurrences.
Percent of Students with Disciplinary Removals
This chart displays the percent of students involved in at least one incident as a percentage of the total number of students in the group enrolled at any time during that school year. A student only counts once in the numerator.
Students with 3 or More Incidents
Students involved in three or more incidents in a single school are shown here. It is possible for a student to be counted more than once if they incurred three or more incidents in more than one of the selected schools during the year.
Incidents Dynamic Crosstab
This dynamic crosstab chart allows users to create a data grid with any combination of student attributes. The displayed measure is the count of student-incident occurrences, not simply a student count or incident count. See Total Student-Incident Occurrences above.
Discipline Actions (Removals)
The disability reported for an action in WISEdash is the disability reported for the student as of the date of the action. For a discipline incident to be reported to DPI, it must have at least one qualifying removal action. Three types removal actions are gathered for all students regardless of disability status:
- expulsion without services offered regardless of the number of days removed,
- expulsion with services offered regardless of the number of days removed, or
- out of school suspension for which student is removed at least ½ of a regular school day
The difference between expulsion with or without services is determined by whether the student was offered educational services, not by whether the student accepted or participated in those services.
Three additional types of removal actions are allowed for a student with disabilities who was removed from the regular classroom for at least half of a regular school day:
- in-school suspension,
- Interim Alternative Education Setting placement (IAES) by school personnel as the result of drug offenses, dangerous weapon offenses, or causing serious bodily injury, or
- Interim Alternative Education Setting placement by impartial IDEA hearing officer
To be considered a student with disabilities, the student must be IDEA-eligible with a current and active IEP as of the discipline date (start date of the removal).
A student may have multiple removal actions for a single incident. Each removal action must meet the qualifying criteria mentioned previously. Removal actions for which a student serves time removed concurrently do not qualify.
Disciplinary Removals by Type
Each student removed is counted once per removal type. If the student has both an out-of-school suspension and expulsion, they count in both types.
Days Removed by Type
This chart displays the total discipline length (number of days removed in the selected school year) for each removal type.