A dozen-plus bills would reduce barriers to success for boys of color | EdSource Today:
The chairman of the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color is confident that the bulk of legislation supported by the panel this session will become law. Oakland Democrat Sandré Swanson wrapped up the committee’s first two years yesterday, presiding over a hearing in the Capitol that laid out current and future proposals for creating a path to success for African American, Latino and Native American boys.
Of about 19 bills supported by or introduced by members of the
Select Committee, Swanson told
EdSource Today he expects as many as 14 will make it to Gov. Brown’s desk. More than half of those address the disproportionately harsh discipline meted out to Black and Latino boys. Recent studies found that although African American boys make up just 8 percent of the state’s public school students, they account for 19 percent of all suspensions. Most of the offenses have nothing to do with violence
