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Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

Need to close the disciplinary gap. Black and Hispanic students are referred to the office at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students. Black and Hispanic students receive In-School-Suspensions at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students. Black and Hispanic students receive Out-Of-School-Suspensions at a significantly higher rate when compared to white students and Asian students.

This project is in Archive Phase

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

Collaborators

Lead Organization: Rochester Public Schools

Contact: Afolabi Runsewe ; Email: afrunsewe@rochester.k12.mn.us ; Phone: 507-328-4300

Known/Likely Collaborators: RPS Racial Equity Advisory Team (Community Focus Team) ; Rochester Public Schools ; Rochester for Justice ; United Way of Olmsted County

Potential Collaborators: Diversity Council ; Mediation & Conflict Solutions ; NAACP, Rochester Chapter

Related Projects

Collaborative Leadership Fellow Program ; Developing and Executing on Cradle to Career Plan ; Diversity Council Civic Equity Focus Area ; Diversity Council Education Equity Plan ; OpenBeam Activating Technologies Project ; Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan

Impacts

Major Impact: Diversity and Inclusion

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education

Level 2: African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning, Programming

Detailed Description

2022-08-07 Beam Comments:

This project appeared to beome a component of the RPS's 2022 Strategic Plan.

Agreement with MDHR

Link => 2011 RPS Office of Civil Right Discipline Disparity Data

RPS and OCR Agreement on Action Plan

More Info

Misc Community Focus Team Activities

2018-07-22

Link to July CFT Data Subgroup Status

2018-06-03:

Community Focus Team (Data Sub-group) recommendations on data presentation.

Pinned Reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

RPS Board Consider Updating District Equity Policy (September 15, 2023)

RPS Board Study Session video recording; Proposed Equity Policy; PB Reporting

2022-2023 RPS Disipline Data (July 26, 2023)

"According to the district’s data, suspensions increased from 1,224 in 2021-22 to 1,523 in 2022-23, representing a jump of 24.4%."

Outcome and Discipline Data 2021-2022 (July 20, 2022)

RPS 2021-2022 Monitoring Reports

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) 2019 -2020 (July 21, 2020)

2019 and 2020 RPS Data: July 14, 2020 School Board Meeting, 2019-2020 First Semester, Achievement and Integration Plan Updates 2020

Analysis of RPS referal data (September 23, 2019)

Phil Wheeler analysis of RPS referral data.

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) (July 17, 2019)

2018-2019 Report presented to RPS school board and comparison with 2018 reporting.

August 2017 Update of June 27 RPS Board Study of 2016-2017 discipline data (August 24, 2017)

August updating the 2017-06-27 RPS Board Study of discipline data with school breakdown.

Consultant interim identification on barriers (March 09, 2016)

Great Lakes Equity Center has identified 6 barriers for equity progress.

An openBEAM 5+1 proposal to address school disciplinary dispairty (January 05, 2016)

The Rochester Public School District is taking the first steps to address a disproportionate disciplinary rate for black and Hispanic students. A community engagement session to get input and solicit involvement from community members will be held at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at Riverside Elementary School. I believe that conversation is necessary but not sufficient. We need to follow up with actions. Here is a 5+1 action plan.

Diversity and Inclusion Related Event(s) => LINK

Reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

RPS Board Consider Updating District Equity Policy (September 15, 2023)

RPS Board Study Session video recording; Proposed Equity Policy; PB Reporting

2022-2023 RPS Disipline Data (July 26, 2023)

"According to the district’s data, suspensions increased from 1,224 in 2021-22 to 1,523 in 2022-23, representing a jump of 24.4%."

Outcome and Discipline Data 2021-2022 (July 20, 2022)

RPS 2021-2022 Monitoring Reports

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) 2019 -2020 (July 21, 2020)

2019 and 2020 RPS Data: July 14, 2020 School Board Meeting, 2019-2020 First Semester, Achievement and Integration Plan Updates 2020

Analysis of RPS referal data (September 23, 2019)

Phil Wheeler analysis of RPS referral data.

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) (July 17, 2019)

2018-2019 Report presented to RPS school board and comparison with 2018 reporting.

Agreement with Minnesota Department of Human RIghts (September 16, 2018)

RPS, ISD 535, entered into collaboration agreement with MDHR.

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) (August 18, 2018)

August 16, 2018 RPS study group on Equity Efforts and Referral Data.

Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) (July 30, 2018)

July 18, 2018 Commissioner Lindsey of the MN Department of Human Rights Forum with Rochester Community.

2018 RPS Discipline Data Update - Information (June 19, 2018)

At the 6/19/2018 school board meeting, the following discipline data was presented.

2018 Community Focus Team Meetings (April 08, 2018)

March Community Focus Team (CFT) meeting notes.

September, August , July , June & May News from Community Focus Team (September 11, 2017)

September, August, July, June and May, 2017 Community Focus Team news and meeting notes.

RPS Implementing PBIS (August 29, 2017)

"The district is at various points of implementing PBIS at each school, but having more consistency will better allow the district to evaluate efforts, including its latest employee training in ENVoY, a nonverbal communication technique to influence students in the classroom."

August 2017 Update of June 27 RPS Board Study of 2016-2017 discipline data (August 24, 2017)

August updating the 2017-06-27 RPS Board Study of discipline data with school breakdown.

US Department of Education, OCR Review of RPS Action Plan (August 21, 2017)

June 19, 2017, Letter from US Department of Eduction, OCR Division to Superindtendent Muroz regarding its review of RPS's May 17, 2017 action plan submission.

RPS School Board to enhance community improvement process (April 19, 2017)

At 2017-04-19 RPS School Board Meeting the following decision was made to enhance the effectiveness of School Board's Community Engagement Committee and RPS's Community Focus Team: deploy a design team (steering committee) to co-facilitate going forward.

How can the community find out about the status of the RPS Community Focus Team recommendations? (February 07, 2017)

In August 2016, the Community Focus Team brought forward a set of recommendations. Questions from the community: What has happened since then and how do we get engaged?

Community Focus Team Recommendations on closing the education learning opportunites gap (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) (September 09, 2016)

4 main areas to make progress toward education equity.

RPS: Equity in Family Engagement Event Notes (May 12, 2016)

Great RPS: Equity in Family Engagement Meeting. Following are some notes.

Consultant interim identification on barriers (March 09, 2016)

Great Lakes Equity Center has identified 6 barriers for equity progress.

Questions on RPS's 2014 - 2015 Discipline Disparity Data (January 09, 2016)

After attending the January 7 2016 RPS community meeting, I took the time to review the slide deck handed out by RPS at the meeting and found myself asking a number of questions.

An openBEAM 5+1 proposal to address school disciplinary dispairty (January 05, 2016)

The Rochester Public School District is taking the first steps to address a disproportionate disciplinary rate for black and Hispanic students. A community engagement session to get input and solicit involvement from community members will be held at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at Riverside Elementary School. I believe that conversation is necessary but not sufficient. We need to follow up with actions. Here is a 5+1 action plan.

Another opportunity for community groups and members to help the youth of the community ... but how? (November 14, 2015)

A couple of days ago, Post Bulletin reports that: "Rochester Public Schools is making changes required by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights after a five-year compliance review revealed that black students were being disproportionately disciplined."

Other Community News and Reports having impacts on:

Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education

April 02, 2024: Free FAFSA Support for Community Based Organizations

Cradle 2 Career (C2C), Rochester Public Schools (RPS), and Arch to Philanthropy are launching a College Coordinator Pilot to provide College Based Organizations (CBOs) resources for College Readiness.

April 01, 2024: EBE Presentation to City Council Study Session

1. Part of Feb 26, 2024 City Council Study Session on DEI: Presentation Slides include actions and measures to City Council Study Session and Link to City Council video

2. Career Opportunities for Women of Color

March 26, 2024: Community Asset Building and Early Literacy Grants

Grant Opportunities:

Due April 17, 2024 Community Asset Building and Health and Wellness Priorities Grants

Due March 5, 2024 Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation seeking applications for Early Literacy Grants

March 21, 2024: Requests for Action Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan

City Council Approved Requests for City Council Approval of two DEI Contracts:

Contract 1: 2024: Professional Development: Cultural Humility Series $41.3K;

Contact 2 : Critical Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit ($30K); Cultural Humility Professional Development Series: Digging Deeper $13.5K ;

Video clip of council discussions and voting and related info about GoodEnough.

March 20, 2024: NIH Community Engagement Alliance Consultative Resource

We invite community organizations and partners who expressed interest in the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) initiative to participate at no cost in several opportunities hosted by CEACR.

March 19, 2024: Action Request March 18, 2024

Comment at the 3/18/2024 City Council Meeting:

To act on September 21, 2020 council resolutions for the city staff to develop a Intercultural City action plan.

March 13, 2024: DEED Funding Opportunities and Workforce Training Available for Minnesota Employers

Funding Opportunities: DEI for Small Employers, Targeted Populations Capacity Building

Employer subsidies: 1. The state of Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP) program offers grants to help train or retrain your workforce.; .2. New Minnesota Fund Reimburses Employers for Costs of Reasonable Accommodations

March 12, 2024: University of Minnesota Rochester at DMC Board November

DMCC Board November 17, 2023 Meeting UMR Update

Presentation Slides

Video Recording

March 04, 2024: City Council: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Updates; Housing; International Relations

DEI Presentation Topics: Language Access and Accessibility; Equity in the Built Environment; 2024 Initiatives

Economic Development Incentives for Housing

Mayor Updates: Black History Month, Luther College: Mutable City; International Relations Committee

March 04, 2024: Olmsted County Human Rights and Human Services Reorg

Reorganization: Olmsted County announces changes to advisory boards for human services and human rights.

“This new model positions us to better learn from our residents and address community needs.”

Open Beam Comments : Accountability of actions and results

March 01, 2024: 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

1Q 2024:

Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts

February 07, 2024: DMC's BioRoch effort to Collaborate with MN MedTech 3.0

DMCC Board Updates:

1. Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting: Video Clip of Discussion at Feb 1 2024 DMCC Board - DMC part of MedTech 3.0; Memo to DMCC

2. Nov. 2023 Video Clip of Discussion at DMCC Board Meeting about MN MedTech 3.0 Description and Webinar

References: US DEA Tech Hub Awardees

February 06, 2024: Luther College Rochester Semester Cohort

Luther College Rochester Immersion internship placements and coursework information:

2023, 2022, 2021 programming information

February 03, 2024: Jeremiah Program News

2024 Fundraising : Chocolate for a Cause! Get your chocolate bar for a chance to win one of five golden tickets! Order yours today Scan the QR Code or click here: LINK

2018 Information presented to December 18, 2018 HRA.

February 01, 2024: Contract Opportunity for Homeownership Mentor Program

Get paid while helping others achieve their homeownership goals!

Referencing BIPOC Homeownership Co-design Report

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Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

This project is in Archive Phase

Collaborators

Related Projects

Impacts

Type of Project

2022-08-07 Beam Comments:

Agreement with MDHR

RPS and OCR Agreement on Action Plan

More Info

Misc Community Focus Team Activities

2018-07-22

2018-06-03:

Pinned Reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

Diversity and Inclusion Related Event(s) => LINK

Reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)

Other Community News and Reports having impacts on: