Saturday, June 11, 2016

High School Suspensions Carry A Heavy Economic Toll, New Report Explains

A report released Thursday by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Civil Rights Project reinforces concerns that harsh school discipline policies, ones that disproportionately affect black and Hispanic students, are a key contributor to the school-to-prison pipeline. And they could seriously cost the country.

According to the report, high school students who were suspended at least once in a single year of school, in this case 10th grade, were at a higher risk of dropping out....
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2016/06/03/3784527/the-cost-of-school-suspensions/


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