![]() ![]() Please read our Terms of Service and Refund Policy before placing your order: Terms of Service If you prefer to contact the high school or district directly to request your transcript, please do not complete our online form.įor more information about Student Privacy, click here: FERPAįor more information about our privacy policy, click here: Privacy Policy ![]() You are not required to use this service. We have received and serviced requests from all 50 states, covering more than 18,000 individual high schools. Our primary goal is to make the process of requesting a student record easy, secure and protective of student's privacy rights. Our online service automates the process of requesting student records and authorizing the High School or District to release those records to agencies, educational institutions, employers or persons that you specify. “We’re not talking about two separate rules here.This is a secure online service that is being made available to you by, a Charlotte, NC based company that specializes in secure document management for the Education marketplace. “We have one student handbook we have one code of code of conduct,” Waterman said. Waterman assured her that would not be the case. “We want to make sure that there are not two separate rules here,” Kelly said. School board member Alison Kelly and Superintendent Brian Waterman addressed concerns expressed in the community and on social media that the new policy will result in a double standard and lighter discipline for students of color, because school officials will be preoccupied with not disciplining students of color to satisfy state officials to the detriment of the wider school community. Thirty-five students have taken advantage of this option this year. When a student is found in possession of or under the influence of illegal substances, instead of being given an immediate out-of-school suspension, students now have the option to undergo an individualized assessment and may opt in to an alternative to suspension program through Rosecrance. In dealing with drug and alcohol use, LTHS is emphasizing treatment rather than punishment and has partnered this year with the Rosecrance Health Network which specializes in treating addiction.Ī Rosecrance counselor is now available for individualized assessments. “Fighting is just the outpouring of struggles,” Rowe said. Rowe said it is important to help students develop relationships and give them a sense of belonging at school. “We’re teaching our students without simply removing them without teaching them the skills they need for success,” said Jennifer Rowe, the school’s first-year director of equity and belonging. LTHS also has been implementing restorative justice practices where students try to rectify wrongs and build community. The school is also creating a committee to review and revise the student handbook and code of conduct. Next year LTHS will hire three more people, including a bilingual coordinator, an additional social worker and an additional school counselor to attempt to better meet student needs. This year the district created two new positions, a director of equity and belonging and director of student services. Thirteen Hispanic students, six Black students, six white students, and two Asian students were suspended or expelled for physical confrontations during the 2019-20 school year.Īs part of its discipline improvement plan, LTHS will examine discipline data and increase services. In the 2019-20 school year 27 white students, 21 Hispanic students, 10 Black students and one Asian student were suspended or expelled for drug offenses. Hispanic students comprise 22.5 of the enrollment, while 3.1 percent are Black, 2.2 percent are Asian and 2.5 percent are mixed race.ĭrug offenses are the most likely reason for LTHS students to be suspended or expelled. More white students than students of color were suspended only one year in the last six, in 2018-19 when 78 white students were suspended compared to 67 students of color.īut, according to the latest Illinois School Report Card the school district’s student enrollment is overwhelmingly white, at 69.6 percent. In the 2019-20 school year, 64 students of color were suspended at LTHS compared to 41 white students. The memo also indicates the students of color at LTHS were suspended at higher rates than white students. In 2017-18 students of color were expelled at nearly 3.7 times the rate of white students, and the rate was about 3.1 times in 2016-17 and 4.5 times in 2015-16, according to a memo prepared by Director of Student Services Leslie Owens for the school board. In 2018-19 the disproportionality rate was around 2.2 times. In the 2019-20, students of color at LTHS were expelled at a rate of nearly four times as often as white students. ![]()
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