A new analysis by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that California students with disabilities were twice as likely to receive an out-of-school suspension as their non-disabled peers, and African American students were three times as likely as white students to be suspended at least once.
In the 2009-10 school year alone, 18 percent of the state's black students received at least one out-of-school suspension, the analysis found. For black students with disabilities, it was 28 percent.
The report's district-by-district breakdown is based on data released in March by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. That report revealed that black students nationwide were 3.5 times as likely as white students to be suspended or expelled from school.
John Swett, a small district in Contra Costa County, had the fourth-highest suspension rate in the state: 23 percent of