A new study of race and school discipline in California counties has revealed that the black male student suspension rate decreased 5 percent between the 2011-2012 and 2016-2017 school years—from 17.8 percent of all black boys to 12.8 percent. Racial disparities remain intact, however.
Black boys’ 12.8 percent suspension rate during the last school year was more than 3.5 times the rate of the CA public school population as a whole (3.6 percent), according to the report, which was created in collaboration between the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL) at San Diego State University and the UCLA Black Male Institute.
Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento, and San Bernardino, all large, urban counties, accounted for the largest suspension numbers among California’s 58 counties. Between them, they handed down a total of 61 percent of black male suspensions. Rural counties with smaller enrollment numbers for black boys, in comparison, were responsible for the highest suspension rates among their black male students. Over the last five years, San Joaquin County has been responsible for black male suspension rates of 20 percent or higher. Last year Glenn County suspended 42.9 percent of its black male students. Suspension rates in rural counties often fluctuate year-to-year, however, because they have smaller populations of enrolled students, according to the report.
[For more on this story by Taylor Walker, go to http://witnessla.com/get-out-r...16-2017-school-year/]
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