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Watching: the discipline rates at your Georgia school

The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement has a new online tool that allows parents to check the discpline data at their school.  KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

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The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement has a new online tool that allows parents to check the discpline data at their school.  KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
By Ty Tagami
Aug 22, 2018

Georgia parents can find out how many discriplinary actions their school has by using a new “dashboard” assembled by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.

The agency announced in August the release of its "K-12 Student Discipline Dashboard." The interactive website shows suspension and expulsion rates, with the number of students involved. It also breaks down rates by gender, and allows filtering by school district and school, for the last four school years.

Users will also find an interactive flow chart at the bottom that allows them to explore incident types and disciplinary reactions based on student race and gender.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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