This report aims to make transparent the rates at which school discipline practices and policies impact Black students in every K-12 public school district in 13 Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
- Nationally, 1.2 million Black students were suspended from K-12 public schools in a single academic year; 55 percent of those suspensions occurred in 13 Southern states.
- Across the United States, 35 percent of all boys suspended and 34 percent of all boys expelled from K-12 public schools were Black. Blacks were 45 percent of girls suspended and 42 percent of girls expelled.
- Mississippi had the highest percentage of Black boys who were suspended or expelled, 71.5 percent and 71.2 percent, respectively.
- In 84 Southern school districts, 100 percent of students suspended were Black.
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- Copyright 2015 Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
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