Discipline, Crime, and Violence Data Reporting

1. Discipline, Crime, and Violence Data Reporting

2. Purpose and Requirements • Prepare Virginia’s Annual Discipline, Crime, and Violence Report as required by Virginia law (Code of Virginia §22.1-279.3:1) • Identify persistently dangerous schools for Virginia’s Unsafe School Choice Option Policy required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) • Provide school safety indicators for Virginia’s School Performance Report Card

3. Purpose and Requirements • Report suspensions and expulsions of students with disabilities required by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) • Report in-school suspensions of students with disabilities required by the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

4. Purpose and Requirements • Report school safety indicators required by the federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act • Report firearms in schools required by the federal Gun Free Schools Act • Report suspensions and expulsions of students required by the federal Office of Civil Rights.

5. Use of Data • Promote school safety and student learning • Replace hunches with facts • Identify the causes of problems • Assess needs so that services can be targeted • Determine whether goals are being accomplished • Understand the impact of prevention and intervention

6. Reporting DCV Data • Incident based • Incidents resulting in suspension or expulsions and all required offenses • Incidents on school grounds 365 days a year/24 hours a day/7 days a week • Incidents on school transportation • Incidents at off-campus, school-sponsored events

7. Incident-based Reporting • Reporting system organized around events, or “incidents” A single incident: • May involve one or more offenses. • May involve one or more students. • May result in a disciplinary outcome for each student involved.