Recently, Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman told school principals that the district plans to focus on data analysis as a first step toward improvement. There's one statistic that the district ought to immediately turn its attention to: suspensions and expulsions of African-American boys.
Our newly-released report on discipline in CPS found that black boys are clearly being punished far more harshly than their peers. The suspension rate for black males is up to five times higher than that for...
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