Suspension, expulsion and other “exclusionary discipline” practices raise the chances that students will end up in the school to prison pipeline and students of color with disabilities are more likely to face that kind of discipline. Those are the findings of a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The report also highlights the higher rates of “school resource officers,” police officers assigned to schools, in schools where at least half the students are students of color and have high poverty rates.
The use of SROs is controversial, especially in a city like Chicago, where many schools have full-time police officers but not enough counselors, social workers or nurses. READ MORE and READ THE STUDY.