A claim that the state’s suspension rate spiked after years of decline is now in doubt after two Colorado school districts raised concerns about data included in a recent report.
The Adams 12 Five Star school district was highlighted in a report published Wednesday by the advocacy group Padres & Jovenes Unidos for posting a big increase in the number of out-of-school suspensions in the 2014-15 school year. But district spokesman Joe Ferdani told Chalkbeat that the state data cited in the report is wrong.
The error originated with the district. Ferdani said Adams 12 provided incorrect data to the state last summer due to an “upload error.”
The correct data, he said, shows Adams 12 had 3,585 out-of-school suspensions in 2014-15, less than half of the number in the Padres report.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Springs 11 school district said that “due to a coding change at the state level,” that districtap data is also incorrect.
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