Report shows school suspension and arrest rates remain highest for Black students

Report shows school suspension and arrest rates remain highest for Black students

Black students in Maryland are consistently suspended from school and arrested on school grounds at higher rates than any other racial group. The Maryland State Board of Education presented a research report on school suspension and arrest rates at its board meeting on Tuesday — though the data were not made publicly available. Although teachers cannot suspend students for insubordination, some continue to do so, state Superintendent of Schools Karen B. Salmon said. “The data is absolutely, unbelievably disproportionate for our Black and brown children,” Salmon said. She later described the results as “horrendous.” In 2017, 1,700 black students from ...

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Why are school police twice as likely to arrest Black students in Indiana than white students?

As schools nationwide scrutinize their use of police, a Chalkbeat analysis of state data shows that school police are 2.5 times as likely to arrest Black Indiana students than white students. More than a quarter of the 1,217 arrests in Indiana schools in 2018-19 were of Black students, even though they only made up 14% of the state’s student population, raising questions of racial bias and educational inequity. The consequences can be dire: Students who are arrested are less likely to graduate or succeed academically and more likely to be involved with the criminal justice system in the future, research ...

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