LARGO, Fla. — Pinellas County School Board Vice Chair Caprice Edmond has called upon the board to review how the district is handling discipline after she said the amount of referrals, and both in and out-of-school suspensions, have increased every year since the 2022-2023 school year.
“It’s not really a presentation about the data. We received the data and had a discussion. It was more about how do we address the data and so we’re going to do that,” said Superintendent Kevin Hendrick, opening the discipline discussion at the board’s workshop on Tuesday.
One of the ways the Pinellas County school district is doing that is by adding intervention centers to all middle and high schools, where data shows students receive the most disciplinary consequences…