Sentences with phrase «suspension than white students»

But statistics showing African - American students in the district were eight times more likely to get an out - of - school suspension than white students last year raises questions about whether the discipline code works against efforts to close the achievement gap.

Not exact matches

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

What they found was that black students were 1.6 percentage points more likely to receive a longer suspension than were white students.

As Matt Barnum put it in a recent Chalkbeat article, «black and poor students have substantially higher suspension rates than white and more affluent peers.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

Yet black and Hispanic students continued to receive 80 percent of all suspensions, and were 6.5 and 3.7 times more likely to be suspended than white students, respectively.

Schools in Mississippi give Black students more than one - out - of - school suspension three times as often as they do to White students; Michigan does this four times as often to Black as White students, resulting in nearly a fifth of Michigan's Black students being kept out of the classroom at some point in their school careers.

As to causation, the racial school discipline disparities in Milwaukee are similar to those in Jacksonville: a Black student is more than twice as likely to be punished with an out - of - school suspension as is a White student.

According to DPI data, suspensions among black students nearly quadrupled the number among white students in 2014 - 2015, despite the fact that black students make up less than 30 percent of total enrollment.

About one in six black students received an out - of - school suspension during the 2009 — 10 U.S. school year — more than three times the rate of white students — according to a new analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Black students in the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools during the 2015 - 16 school year were 10 times more likely than white students to get a short - term suspension, according to a report released this month.

In data collected by the University of California, Los Angeles, Civil Rights Movement, they found that while Asian and white students had similar suspension rates, other minority students were suspended at more than twice those rates.

Moreover, punishments given out by school administrators, such as suspensions and expulsions, are three times more likely to be meted out to black students than to their white peers.

The author points out that disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates are more often the result of inequitable discipline practices than differences in behavior between students of color and their white peers.

These stereotypes manifest in widespread social problems like tracking Black and Latino students into remedial classes and out of college prep classes, and in the handing out of more frequent and more severe punishments and suspensions than are given to white students for the same (or even worse) behavior.

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

He finds that African American students are much more likely to be identified for special education, to be diagnosed with Emotional Disorders (ED), to be removed from mainstream classrooms into more restrictive environments, and to experience out - of - school suspensions than are White or Asian students.

During the 2013 — 2014 school year, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights reported that black students were 3.8 times more likely than white students to receive an out - of - school suspension.

Or Los Angeles, where overall suspension rates are low and Hispanic students are less likely to be suspended than white students?

In 2015 — 16, Los Angeles Unified School District's suspension rate for Black students was seven times higher than white students while the per capita arrests of Black students were 17 times higher than white students.

Discipline Disparities Students of color in North Carolina schools have significantly higher rates of both short - and long - term suspensions than their white counterparts.14 Report to the North Carolina General Assembly: Consolidated Data Report 2014 - 15 (Rep.).

However, some districts recorded lower suspension rates of Latino students than white students.