Millions of Children Find the Schoolhouse Door Locked To see the
report and related spreadsheets, click here. For Immediate
Release (Los Angeles, CA) Today, the Center for Civil Rights
Remedies at the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
issued “Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of
Disciplinary Exclusion From School,” a nationwide report based
on an analysis of Federal government suspension-related data
from the 2009-10 school year for grades K-12. This first-ever
breakdown of nearly 7,000 districts found that 17% of African
American students nationwide received an out-of-school
suspension compared to about 5% of White students. The
comparable rate for Latinos was 7%. The data analyzed covered
about 85% of the nation’s public school students. The suspension
rates were equally striking for students with disabilities and
revealed that an estimated 13% of all students with disabilities
were suspended nationally, approximately twice the rate of their
non-disabled peers. The real disturbing s