For anyone who follows the educational movement and has heard the phrase
"school to prison pipeline," the following
analysis just released will not surprise:
The analysis, which will be formally released Tuesday by the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, focused on states where more than half of all the suspensions and expulsions of black students nationwide occurred. While black students represented just under a quarter of public school students in these states, they made up nearly half of all suspensions and expulsions.
In some districts, the gaps were even more striking: in 132 Southern school districts, for example, black students were suspended at rates five times their representation in the student population, or higher.[bold my emphasis]
Daily Kos writer
Shaun King wrote very recently about the double standards in how black and white students' misbehavior is handled. The
new study released by the Graduate School of Education in the University of Pennsylvania focuses on southern states and the rates of expulsion and suspension amongst the
black student body.
Among the other findings in the analysis were that in 181 school districts where blacks represented just under 60 percent of enrollment on average, all of the students expelled during 2011-12 were black. Within the 13 states, Louisiana and Mississippi expelled the highest proportion of blacks.
Blacks were suspended or expelled at rates higher than their representation in the student body in every one of the 13 states analyzed. The report shows data for more than 3,000 districts.
Here's a handy info graphic to show your more obdurate friends.