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Students at Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 suspended or expelled 74 times in a single school year

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Tony Sanders State Superintendent of Education | Oficial Website

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Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 reported 74 suspensions or expulsions for the 2021-22 school year, according to the latest student discipline report by the Illinois State Board of Education.

According to the report, the district expelled or suspended 74 students during the year. This equates to eight percent of the 883 students enrolled.

Students were expelled for one incident with violence that caused physical injury, five incidents with violence without physical injury, eight incidents with alcohol and tobacco, four incidents with drugs, two incidents witha dangerous weapon firearm,one incident with a dangerous weapon, other than a firearm.

The district reported that most in-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 22. There were two incidents of violence without injury. For 22 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Boy students received 50 suspensions, while 24 girls were suspended.

There were 44 elementary or middle school students, and 30 high school students suspended in 2021-22 school year.

The district reported that most out-of-school suspensions were given for unspecified reasons, of which there were 31. There were four incidents of alcohol. For 21 incidents, students were suspended for one to two days.

Illinois ranks as the 5th state in terms of the overall number of schools and student enrollment among all states.

Illinois lawmakers enacted laws in 2015 to restrict schools from disciplining a disproportionate number of Black and minority students out of school and into the criminal justice system, often for minor misbehavior.

Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 student discipline report
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
Alcohol04
Violence with injury01
Violence without injury23
Drug offenses04
Firearm02
Other dangerous weapons10
Tobacco22
Other reason2231
Total2747
Length of suspensions
In-school SuspensionOut-of-school Suspension
One day or less02
1-2 days2221
2-3 days519
3-4 days05
4-10 days00
More than 10 days00

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