Reconsidering the Alternatives: The Relationship Between Suspension, Disciplinary Alternative School Placement, Subsequent Juvenile Detention, and the Salience of Race

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Background: Alternative school settings for students who are identified as “disruptive or dangerous” are playing an increasingly prominent role in the world of public education, yet significant gaps in our understanding of their efficacy remain. Objective: This longitudinal investigation within a large school district serving 100,000 students examines multiple factors to determine how the risk of placement in the disciplinary alternative schools is systematically related to predictors and the risk of juvenile subsequent juvenile detention between 3rd and 12th grade. Methods: Four groups of discrete-time hazard models were run separately to determine the most significant predictors in each variable category (i.e., student demographics, behavior-related variables, non-cognitive variables, and academic-related variables); the most significant predictor from each of the four groups was used in the final full model. A second data set was constructed for the analysis of subsequent juvenile d

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