The intersectionality of race/gender and the placement of students in Interim Alternative Educational Settings

Interim Alternative Educational Settings (IAES) have long been a place to send students with maladaptive behaviors and those with medical conditions. But what happens when students, particularly male students of color, are sent to an IAES en masse with no regard? In a large school district in the northeast section of the United States, an intervention took place to curb the disproportionate number of male students of color entering IAES’s. My problem of practice looks at two years' worth of data and tracks the number of students of color as well as any disproportionality between males and females. The intervention resulted in more students entering IAES’s, but fewer males than the year prior, and for less time.