Officials: Ottawa suspension report used skewed data
Thursday, December 17th, 2009From the Ottawa [Canada] Citizen:
Ottawa school district officials are throwing out a report released this week, saying it contained flawed data. The report concluded that suspensions for students with special needs had risen dramatically in the past year.
Superintendent Walter Piovesan said some students with multiple diagnoses had apparently been counted twice.
The report had spurred criticism from disability advocates, who accused the board of suspending children “for being autistic.”

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