Foster youth and black students are the most likely to be suspended in school, new data show [SanDiegoUnionTribune.com]
Black students are more than twice as likely to be suspended as students overall in San Diego County, while foster youth are almost five times as likely to be suspended, according to a new batch of suspension data released by the state on Monday. Last school year, more than 15,000 students in the county were suspended at least once, and more than a quarter of them were suspended multiple times. About 1,500 of those suspended students were in kindergarten through third grade. Still,...