Ventura County Star
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Ventura County schools suspended students more than 14,592 times and expelled 217 students in 2011-12 .
Last school year , those totals plummeted to 6,909 suspensions and 144 expulsions.
State data shows that the state, similar to Ventura County , has seen suspension and expulsion rates chopped in half over decade .
Almost half of the county's suspensions last year were filed for "violent incidents" that did not include an injury.
The state's definition of a violent incident doesn't require a fight or an attempted assault.
UCLA researcher worries that schools could use the broadly defined category to replace willful defiance suspensions in situations where students use curse words or vulgarity.
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