Report says Virginia’s black male students are twice as likely as white males to be suspended - The Washington Post: Black male students in Virginia are twice as likely to be suspended from public schools as white male students, according to a report released Wednesday that says punishment is often doled out for such minor offenses as talking loudly and disrupting class.
The report, based on data from more than 600 Virginia schools, found that suspension rates were lower in secondary schools that used threat assessment guidelines, which provide a procedure for examining the intent and risk associated with student misbehavior.
The report, titled “Prevention v. Punishment: Threat Assessment, School Suspensions and Racial Disparities,” was jointly done by Dewey Cornell, an education professor with the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, and JustChildren, a child advocacy program of the Legal Aid Justice Center.
