Federal officials have compiled rulings from 14 school civil rights cases to create a resource on “confronting racial discrimination in student discipline.”
The document from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division relates how investigations were resolved in 10 states. The cases from the past 11 years involved concerns of discrimination in schools’ discipline methods for Black, Latino and Native American students, including out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, school-based arrests, referrals to law enforcement, involuntary discipline transfers and informal removals. The resource aims to show school leaders ways to improve their discipline methods.
