Race gap in school discipline?
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Email this ArticleSTOCKTON - Though they represent only a small percentage of the population at Stockton Unified's four comprehensive high schools, black students receive a sizable percentage of the expulsions and suspensions, a disparity experts say is reflective of conditions across the nation.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has been studying school discipline in numerous districts this year, and a member of the Stockton community provided the organization's report on Stockton Unified to The Record.
According to the data, black students represented 12.2 percent of the population at Chavez, Edison, Franklin and Stagg high schools during the 2010-11 school year. But they received 23.1 percent of the expulsions and 22.9 percent of the suspensions.
Stockton Unified officials were not surprised by the ACLU's