Sentences with phrase «expelled than white students»

They are also much more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students with disabilities.

And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

Not exact matches

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

And the school - to - prison pipeline is a serious and legitimate concern with a study this year indicating that southern states suspend and expel African - American students at a significantly higher rate than white students.

It also noted that black students are nearly four times as likely than white students to be suspended from school and twice as likely to be expelled.

According to the Civil Rights Data Collection, black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

Nationwide, black students are suspended at three times the rates of their white classmates, and students with disabilities are two times more likely to be suspended and expelled than general education students.

Federal civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education this year has shown that Black and Latino students are suspended or expelled three times more often than white students, and arrested for non-violent offenses over three times more frequently than white students.

A widely circulated report from the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education found that in 2009 - 10 students of color, students with disabilities and English language learners were suspended and expelled at higher rates than their white peers.

While the number of students who are expelled or sent home for misbehaving in D.C. public schools and public charter schools has decreased overall, recent findings show that black students are nearly seven times more likely to be suspended than their white peers.

According to the Office for Civil Rights, Black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students.

At the national level, the data show that black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students.