Racial Disparity in School Suspensions

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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.

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To read the full report, titled Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis, and published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, click here.


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There is some evidence that participants in school-based out-of-school-time programs “did their homework more consistently and, in some cases, achieved higher grades in school.”
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