In Virginia, a dangerous school” is one that exceeds a threshold of offense incidents “persistently over a three-year period as established by the Virginia Board of Education’s Persistently is located in in year 2004, as adm051 Dangerous Schools Identification Process and Criteria “” memo. A school that exceeds its established threshold for three consecutive years is designated as a dangerous school.” In year one, the school is in status and in year two the “persistently “caution” school is probation.” Schools must develop corrective action plans and are subject to “on graduated interventions. Each receiving funds under the federal is required to Every Student Succeeds Act 2015 establish and implement a statewide policy requiring a student attending a persistently dangerous school be allowed to attend a safe school. In May 2002, the Virginia Board of Education’s School Choice Option” policy was adopted. Virginia’s School Choice Option” “Unsafe “Unsafe policy can be accessed on the Virginia Department of Education is located in in year Criteria “” 2003, as inf086 memo. OVERVIEW OF ALL INCIDENTS This report focuses on the DCV data reported for the 2016-2017 school year and includes information submitted to the VDOE by all school divisions. In the school year 2016-2017, there were 147,155 incidents reported. The incidents of defiance, classroom/campus disruption, disruptive demonstrations, obscene language/gestures, minor physical altercations, and disrespect combined accounted for 61.15 percent of all incidents in 2016-2017. The most frequently reported incidents were defiance 20,576, classroom/campus disruption 17,746, disruptive demonstrations 16,025, minor physical altercation 14,327, using obscene inappropriate language/gestures 11,119, and disrespect/walking away 10,198. Due to the personally identifiable nature of the information represented in this report, numbers ten (10) and less are suppressed with the use of an asterisk (*). This includes all data including student counts, outcome counts, and incident count.
In Virginia, a “persistently dangerous school” is one that exceeds a threshold of offense incidents over a three-year period as established by the Virginia Board of Education’s Persistently Dangerous Schools Identification Process and Criteria is located in “” in year 2004, as adm051 memo. A school that exceeds its established threshold for three consecutive years is designated as a “persistently dangerous school.” In year one, the school is in “caution” status and in year two the school is “on probation.” Schools must develop corrective action plans and are subject to graduated interventions. Each receiving funds under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act 2015 is required to establish and implement a statewide policy requiring a student attending a persistently dangerous school be allowed to attend a safe school. In May 2002, the Virginia Board of Education’s “Unsafe School Choice Option” policy was adopted. Virginia’s “Unsafe School Choice Option” policy can be accessed on the Virginia Department of Education Criteria is located in “” in year 2003, as inf086 memo. OVERVIEW OF ALL INCIDENTS This report focuses on the DCV data reported for the 2016-2017 school year and includes information submitted to the VDOE by all school divisions. In the school year 2016-2017, there were 147,155 incidents reported. The incidents of defiance, classroom/campus disruption, disruptive demonstrations, obscene language/gestures, minor physical altercations, and disrespect combined accounted for 61.15 percent of all incidents in 2016-2017. The most frequently reported incidents were defiance 20,576, classroom/campus disruption 17,746, disruptive demonstrations 16,025, minor physical altercation 14,327, using obscene inappropriate language/gestures 11,119, and disrespect/walking away 10,198. Due to the personally identifiable nature of the information represented in this report, numbers ten (10) and less are suppressed with the use of an asterisk (*). This includes all data including student counts, outcome counts, and incident count.
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