coe-staff: Invitation: EDST TTF Search Finalist Colloquium Tues 12/10

[Education Dean]

The Education Studies department invites you to attend a colloquium presented by Jo Al Khafaji-King

Tuesday December 10, 10-11am

HEDCO 230T or via Zoom (link below)

Pastries, fruit, coffee, and tea provided



Colloquium title: Disability as Discipline? Impacts of the New York City Suspension Ban on Students with Disabilities

Description: Across the United States, suspension bans have become a popular policy response to address excessive and inequitable use of suspension in schools. However, there is little research that examines what strategies school staff employ when suspension is no longer permitted. I examine the effect of New York City's suspension ban on the use of a potential unintended substitute for suspension: special education classification. Using a dosage difference-in-differences strategy, I find that the ban induced an increase in disability classifications at high risk for classroom exclusion. I show that, on average, students with these classifications in schools with high pre-policy reliance on suspension experienced large declines in test scores, whereas general education students experienced slight test score improvements. Notably, I show that these declines are not due to new, ban-induced classifications actively harming student achievement. These results underscore the importance of considering unintended consequences and vulnerable groups when employing a seemingly "costless" and popular policy lever to reduce schools' reliance on suspension.

This presentation is part of an on-campus interview for the Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Equity<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/534178/assistant-professor-of-education-policy-and-equity> position in the department of Education Studies.



About Jo Al Khafaji-King (they/them)

Jo Al Khafaji-King<https://www.joalkhafajiking.com/research> is a PhD candidate at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service studying public policy analysis. Their work is funded by an Institute for Education Sciences - Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Fellowship and a 2024 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Jo studies K-12 education policy in the U.S. context, with an emphasis on the role of education systems, social context, and policy in ameliorating (or exacerbating) educational inequities on the dimensions of race, disability status, and gender. Jo uses rigorous quantitative methods to understand causal relationships between policy and student outcomes with their current research focusing on inequities in school discipline practices and the use of police in schools, how broader social context and policy impact exclusionary discipline, and the impacts of school discipline reforms and alternative practices. Jo holds their MA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio and BAs in Economics and Spanish from Western Washington University.


Zoom Information

Zoom Link<https://uoempl.zoom.us/j/84879055315?pwd=10bM5L8rzPyjbeNnk3Uo9P5qBQnUU7.1>

Meeting ID: 848 7905 5315
Passcode: 175901


For those unable to attend, the colloquium will be recorded, and a link shared after the presentation.

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