«The high amount of lost instruction time and the large disparities documented in this report are large enough to suggest that at least some students with disabilities, and
especially Black students with disabilities, are punished for behavior that is caused by their disability,» Losen wrote in the report.
«These findings confirm the unacceptable trend of
black students,
especially boys, and
students with disabilities being subject to disciplinary practices that exclude them from classroom instruction, thereby creating additional barriers to their learning.