Education Report: California lawmakers to reconsider "zero-tolerance" student discipline laws

from http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20392761/education-report-california-lawmakers-reconsider-zero-tolerance-student

This week, we wrote about the large number of California schoolchildren who received an out-of-school suspension in the 2009-10 school year -- 7 percent of all kids in grades K-12, 13 percent of those with disabilities, 7 percent of Latino students and 18 percent of black students, according to estimates from the UCLA's Civil Rights Project, which used data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

In Oakland, one out of every four black boys was suspended that year, according to the study.