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AppendixD STATE SCHOOL OFFlCIALS' RESPONSES TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDREN our OF SCHOOL Letter Response State School-Age State State Data From State Census Mandated School-Age on Children Other Information Provided Department of or Permitted By Census Not By State Department of Education State Education I State Statute Conducted Enrolled Louisiana YES YES NO NO "The Bureau ofStudent Services does not have data on children, ages 3-15, who are not attending public or private elementary or secondary schools or are not being provided educational services by institutions," Maine Maryland YES YES NO YES NO NO YES NO SP - "Estimate ... 21% [handicapped children] in Maine receiving the needed appropriate services. Our special education staff is small and little information is available." Limited (21 districts) non-enrollment data available. Massachusetts YES YES YES Annually NO "There is a census of school aged children required by law ... but it is rarely conducted with any accuracy." Michigan YES YES N03 NO o -Public High School Dropouts 1970-7/. SP - Astudyofhandicapped children and youth (1971). "The Michigan Dept. of Ed, does not collect data on the children who are not attending public or private school." Minnesota YES YES YES Annually NO Mississippi YES YES N03 NO "commend you for attempting research in this area but regret to inform you that absolutely no records exist in this state on children so classified ..." Missouri YES YES YES Annually NO SP - "Missouri Law presently requires a census of all handicapped children between ages 0-21 , .. presently in the process of tabulating the results ... at this time cannot identify those children not being provided educational services." Montana Nebraska YES N0 NO NO NO SP - First phase of plan to identify handicapped children in need of educational services has been completed: screening in public schools. But"... we still lack in knowing who and where children are if they are not attending the public schools." 2 YES N03 NO Nevada YES NO NO NO "No data is collected which pertains to children not receiving educational services. New Hampshire YES YES YES Annually NO New Jersey YES YES NO NO attempt made last year to collect statistics on number school-age children not in school. ", .. responses not accurate enough to warrant publication." New Mexico YES YES NO NO "... do not have any data on children who are not attending school or children excluded from educational services ... There might be some Navajo children way out on the back trails of the reservation who are not attending school, but if the local educa tional agency found them, the local agency would make them start attending school." New York YES YES YES Annually NO North Carolina YES YES NO NO SP - statistics, derived from principals' annual reports, on number of children who were excluded from the public schools because of affliction by severe mental, emotional or physical incapacities during 72-73 school year. Total for state was 565 children. 186
ApperadixD STATE SCHOOL OFFICIALS' RESPONSES TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL Letter Response State School-Age State State Data From State Census Mandated School-Age on Children Other Information Provided Department of or Permitted By Census Not By State Department of Education State Education l State Statute Conducted Enrolled North Carolina o - Statistics on students "not enrolled in any school (Continued) but eligible for enrollment (includes dropouts only)" submitted for Annual Title I ESEA Application - 1973-74: state total 28,208. North Dakota N0 2 YES YES NO Each Odd Year Ohio YES NO NO NO SP - Has Comprehensive Plan for the Education of the Handicapped, which, using incidence figures, has estimates of special needs children not being serviced. Oklahoma YES NO NO NO Oregon YES NO NO YES For 1973-74 identified 7,032 children out of school through "Operation Childfind". "Project was state mandated survey to locate all out of school children and to determine the educational and other needs of the children not attending school." Pennsylvania YES NO YES NO SP - annual enumeration of children 0-21 with special Annually needs; partial data for 73-74 available on children not assigned to education agency, but project not complete at this time. o - "... Non-enrollment data available in Pennsylvania is of a very limited nature. The data that is available is withdrawal data." Withdrawal data in two categories, derived from Annual Summary of Attendance Reports: (1) number of children who have reached required attendance age (17 years) and have dropped out of school and (2) number of 16 and 17 year olds who have been issued general employment certificates or domestic service permits. Rhode Island YES YES YES YES Handwritten chart on number of children by ages, by Annually communities, derived from 72-73 census, not attending day schools.' South Carolina YES YES N03 NO 1970 U.S. Census Data on non-enrollment: 315 children, ages 3-15 not attending public or private schools. South Dakota YES YES YES NO D - Compulsory attendance I-8th grades in South Annually Dakota; each local school district is req uired to have truancy officer. "... with this type of monitoring we feel that few, if any, students of school age are not in attendance." SP - Special Education Office has figures identifying children enrolled in school, but on waiting lists. Identified in 73-74 school year 30 children who were inappropriately placed in educational programs. "... at any given time, we have identified 15-30 students who are mentally or emotionally handicapped who are not being served with appropriate educational offerings." Provided Educational Statistics Digest 1972-73. Tennessee N02 YES YES NO State-wide census on handicapped children conducted Every 5 twice a year. years Mandatory education of all handicapped children. Texas YES YES YES NO D - Provided "Basic Statistics on School Leavers" Every 5 1972-73 school years. Statistics on "school leavers" years ("School leaver is a pupil who left school during the period of September 1, 1972 through June 30, 1973, 187
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CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL IN AMERICA A
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Copyright If.> October 1974 by the
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People Who Worked Oft This Report .
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Portland, Maine CDF staff Cambridge
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Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Cha
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CHAPTER 1 Table I CHAPTER 2 Table I
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community leaders concerned with ed
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dren were suspended. The next highe
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described in this report, they can
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needed to improve and unify state c
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Bureaucratic Excuses for Inaction Y
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problems. Are teachers encouraged o
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Who Are the Children Out of School?
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vary. But while many of them descri
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Maxine, 14 Maxine Dolan is 14 and h
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until the new school year. Meanwhil
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awake until morning when the sounds
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He's had his chances, foreign or no
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Theresa, 12 Theresa Engler, a 12-ye
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34 Table I Children Not Enrolled! B
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Proportion of Minority Children 2 T
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Social and Economic Factors Poor ch
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Limitations of Census Data Our anal
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We found children out of school in
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.". 0\ Table VIII Chlldren Out of S
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VI o Table X All Children Out uf Sc
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Total % of Areas Surveyed Children
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Chapter 3 Barriers to School Attend
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TABLE I STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONA
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ter the four months because the cou
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Truancy Laws penalizing children an
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A Denver school official stated: "Y
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officers who spoke Spanish, and onl
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The principal of Lincoln Junior Hig
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For example, as of October, 1972, i
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think there is enough counseling, e
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fees required to take, for example,
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did not have books were not much of
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Consider what this would mean if yo
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no money to feed and care for all o
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Apparently a judgment has been made
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ecome self-sufficient adults are th
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In Cambridee, Massachusetts, an att
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Inadequacy of Special Education Pro
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over again for four or five years.
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Janice has not been suspended this
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ased. 56 They are modeled and norme
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chusetts counselor pointed out that
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that the city does not experiment w
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1. The use of many kinds of people
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abuse laws of the state. However, t
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116
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Many districts still have the power
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In contrast to the majority of publ
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The same pattern of secondary suspe
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Racial Discrimination in the Use of
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One southern school official admitt
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Page 169: APPENDICES
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Page 181 and 182: -secondary school children by sex a
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Page 187 and 188: Sheet E-l SCHOOL EXPULSIONS, SUSPEN
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Page 197 and 198: ALABAMA State Officials Mr. William
Page 199 and 200: Mr. Milton Ogle, Associate Director
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Page 207 and 208: Los Angeles Unified School District
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Page 211: State Wisconsin Wyoming GRANO TOTAL
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Page 242 and 243: Appendix 6 RANK ORDERS OF AREAS IN
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AppendixM STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUC
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Lee I 4,925 2,663 2,260 2 83 18 65
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Walker I 9,671 8,924 745 2 230 164
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Collins I 35 29 6 (82.4) (17.1 ) Co
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Junction City 1,003 584 419 (58.2)
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SI. Charles I 245 149 96 (60.8) (39
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AppendlxM STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUC
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Appendix M STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDU
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App@ndblfl STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDU
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Appendix M STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDU
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South Pike Cons. I 2,575 893 1,677
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Clarendon #2 I 3,246 784 2,462 54 8
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Orangeburg #7 1,112 158 954 9 9 (14
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A. ppendi.'\: N SPECIAL EDUCATION I
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Learning Deaf!Hard Blind! Speech Ph
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Rhode Island Society for Autistic C
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Federal Court Consent Agreements; P
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Mr. Peter E. Holmes Director, Offic
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census figures and often did not ch
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pils who dropped out of this school
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SUGGESTED REFINEMENTS IN THE INDIVI
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I. Name of School System _ II. Name
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2 1 1 16 2 14 Cotton Plant 586 72 5
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1 1 5 4 1 Tuckerman 820 711 109 (1)
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Appelldlx R OCR DATA ON STUDENT SUS
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APPENDIXR FOOTNOTES I Unless noted
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36There were 1,763 students, suspen
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Total Students Suspended At Least O
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APPENDIX T TABLES I-II FOOTNOTES IS
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Kentucky Floyd County Total I 2 0.5
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AppendixT SUSPENSIONS IN CD" SURVEY
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Kentucky Floyd County Total Mud Cre
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Appendix T SUSPENSIONS IN CDF SURVE
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Appenllb V STATUTORY PROVISIONS FOR
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Massachusetts I Official None -Misc
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itppe",db V STATUTORY PROVISIONS FO
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Bureau is interested primarily in d
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could be collected centrally at the
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