Schools would not be able to suspend students for nonviolent acts such as ignoring the teacher, talking back or disrupting the class.
California has long touted its low expulsion rates. But vague reporting requirements may be allowing schools to mask expulsions as transfers.
Reynoso said suspension rates “declined significantly” in the last few years because of these efforts. Pasadena Unified in the 2021-22 school year had a 3.4% overall suspension rate with Black students suspended at an 8.4% rate. Ten years earlier, the district’s suspension rate was 8.8%, and Black students were suspended at a rate of 17.3%.
The school district’s trajectory to that policy was the result of legal action. In 2012, four Black studentswith the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for racial harassment and discrimination. The federal agency investigated the district and found that Black children were more frequently and harshly punished than other students.
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