This exercise will take you through collecting, interpreting and visualizing Office of Civil Rights Data for your CMO in order to answer the following 2 questions:

• Using DOE OCR data, how does the in-school & out of school suspension data compare to that of the surrounding district?

Overview of the Civil Rights Data collection

1. Go to http://ocrdata.ed.gov/ and read the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions.)

Comparison of schools – What is the discipline rate like at your CMO schools?

2. Go to http://ocrdata.ed.gov/flex/Reports.aspx?type=school

3. Fill in details to find your school and select 2013 as the year.

1. Using “Choose your data” in the right hand column – select Discipline of Students without Disabilities
2. Create the following google chart using this template (https://goo.gl/V7WalR). Share with your group members so that you can all enter the data at the same time.
3. Enter in the lines of data into your google sheet.
4. Repeat for all of your 6 schools.
5. Calculate the % of in-school suspensions for each school by racial-ethnic group, total students & LEP (limited English proficiency.) Discuss trends with your group. How do you think the district will compare?
6. How safe are the schools (using arrests as a proxy)?

School District Discipline comparison

1. Go to http://ocrdata.ed.gov/DistrictSchoolSearch, and select the tab for “Find District.”
2. Select one of your districts.
3. Select from several of the reports on the right tab. Select the Discipline of Students without Disabilities report.
4. Enter data into google chart.
5. Repeat for remaining districts.
6. Calculate the % of in-school suspensions for each district by racial-ethnic group, total students & LEP (limited English proficiency.) Discuss trends with your group.
7. Create a chart that compares school and district data for the category you think is most important.
8. Email your spreadsheet to me (or email me a link to the googledoc) – Canvas has been doing some strange translations of excel.
9. Have a wonderful break.