Rethinking ‘Troublemakers’ School Suspension Summit Challenges Education Leaders to Reevaluate Discipline Methods
Published October 3rd, 2017 at 4:45 PM
Turn the Page KC, the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department and the mayor’s office convened school district leaders and community stakeholders in September to review city-wide suspension data. This data from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA showed in a 2015 study that Missouri suspended black elementary students, particularly black boys, at a higher rate than any other state during the 2011-12 school year.
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