Sacramento-area schools review racial imbalance of student suspensions
Published: Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 12:23 am
Black students attending Folsom Cordova Unified schools were nearly five times as likely to be suspended as white students in the 2009-10 school year.
Sacramento City Unified, Natomas Unified, Twin Rivers Unified and Elk Grove Unified all suspended black students at a rate three times higher than they suspended white students that year.
Across the state, nearly one of every five African American students and one in 14 Latino students were suspended at least once in 2009-10, compared with one in 17 white students and one in 33 Asian American students, according to a report released last week from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA.
The findings are part of a broader discussion about whether schools are suspending students to
