Disproportionate Impact Of K-12 School Suspension And Expulsion Across the Nation

Abstract/body: As the nation struggles with the issue of race, a recently published report released from the University of Pennsylvania sheds light on troubling data on expulsions in our country. Annually, 1.2 million Black students were suspended from K-12 public schools in in the United States. School systems in Southern were responsible for 50% of Black student expulsions from public schools in the United States. This report examines the rates at which school discipline practices and policies disproportionally 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.