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Racial Disparity in School Suspensions- Black boys are nearly 3 times as likely to be suspended as white boys and Black girls nearly 4 times as likely as white girls

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

September 13, 2010 Racial Disparity in School Suspensions By SAM DILLON NY Times In many of the nation?s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys, according to a new study, which also found that black girls were suspended at four times the rate of white girls. School authorities also suspended Hispanic and American Indian middle school students at higher rates than white students, though not at such disproportionate rates as for black children, the study found. Asian students were less likely to be suspended than whites. The study analyzed four decades of federal Department of Education data on suspensions, with a special focus on figures from 2002 and 2006, that were drawn from 9,220 of the nation?s 16,000 public middle schools...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).