Racial minorities and students with disabilities are suspended at substantially higher rates than their white and non-disabled peers, according to an analysis of discipline data from nearly 500 California school districts. Researchers said the disparities are a civil rights issue and cause for alarm.
While 7.1 percent of all California students were suspended from school at least once during the 2009-10 school year, the rate was as high as 18 percent among blacks, 11 percent among American Indians and 13.4 percent for students with disabilities. The rate was 7 percent among Latinos and 3 percent among Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Released yesterday by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA's Civil Rights Project, the analysis is based on data school districts reported to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. The reporting districts serve about 90 percent of all students in California.
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