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AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2023
Located in southwestern Pennsylvania near the borders of Maryland and West Virginia, the district has 1,483 students, with 21% minority enrollment. The district and its students have experienced many of the problems related to the opioid epidemic, including many students being raised by grandparents due to parental drug use. The district has three…
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Justice, Equal Education, Social Bias
Gadd, Sonja; Butler, Bettie Ray – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2019
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) arose from the need to respond to the pervasive racial disparities in behavioral outcomes for students with, and at-risk, for disabilities. Initially, the use of culturally appropriate interventions was indirectly emphasized through PBIS (Sugai et al., 2000b). Researchers have often critiqued…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Students with Disabilities
Christian, Cinda; Garland, Marshall – Online Submission, 2007
State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program in Texas designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Texas…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Compensatory Education, Supplementary Education, School Districts