Numbers from across Texas also show racial disparities – administrators suspended 20.7% of the state’s 685,775 Black students in the 2018-19 school year, data showed.
at-home suspensions and expulsion for children in pre-kindergarten through second grade, except when required by law. From 2014 to 2016, less than 1% of students in that age range were suspended districtwide each school year. Since the ban, administrators said only a few cases have resulted in suspensions.
Sheila Henry, executive director of high school operations, said that in addition to restorative practices, high school administrators try to use less severe disciplinary measures, such as in-school suspension and detention, to keep students in the classroom. Henry said that school resource officers are rarely involved in suspensions “unless an arrest is necessary.”
A group of local social justice organizations called on the Austin school district to ensure greater equality on campuses and divest from school policing, citing the “physical and psychological harms of over policing on students from minority communities as well as those with disabilities.” Many school districts have contracts with local police departments to supply school resource officers, while others, such as the Austin district, have their own internal police departments. School resource officer programs originated in the 1950s butIn Texas today, more thanIn recent weeks, school districts across the U.S. have reevaluated their relationships with the police.
Studies have shown a direct connection between incarceration and school disciplinary policies that disproportionately affect students of color, a relationship often called the school-to-prison pipeline.
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