New report cites disproportionate punishment for black students
By Susan Ferriss
7:30 am, October 6, 2011 Updated: 7:30 am, October 6, 2011
In a troubling pattern mirrored elsewhere, black students in North
Carolina schools were found to be subjected to far harsher discipline
than other students for the same types of minor infractions, according
to a report released Tuesday by the National Education Policy Center, a
non-partisan research center that sponsors peer-reviewed research.
For
the first-time offense of cell phone use at school, 32 percent of
black students in North Carolina were given out-of-school suspension,
school data collected in 2010 showed, while less than 15 percent of
white students received that same punishment for the same offense. For a
first-time offense of public display of affection, according to the
report, almost 43 percent of the accused black students in North
Carolina were given out-of-school suspension, compared to about 15
percent of white students.
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