Across California, foster youth and those experiencing homelessness — are most likely to be sent home through punitive, out-of-school suspensions, new research shows.
Backpacks are placed outside a classroom at Louise Van Meter Elementary School on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in Los Gatos, Calif. Across California, the two groups of children living in more tenuous home environments — foster youth and those experiencing homelessness — are also the most likely to be sent home through punitive, out-of-school suspensions, new research shows.
“School administrators need to ask themselves what educational or community benefit is achieved when we punish homeless and foster children by sending them home,” said Ramon Flores, a Ph.D. candidate in education at UCLA and co-author of the report. “For homeless and foster youth, when they are suspended out of school, the consequences may be grave.”
The study surveyed the 20 largest districts in the state, including San Francisco and Oakland Unified. Those Bay Area districts’ suspension rates were far lower than the state average, with an average of 5.6 and 9.9 days lost in 2021-22 respectively. But the Los Angeles Unified School District — the largest in the state — had the lowest rates of all, at just .7 days lost to out-of-school suspensions for all its students.
Even so, things at the Southern California district are far from perfect: Los Angeles Unified has a much higher rate than the state does for referral to law enforcement, Losen said.
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