Relative Rate Index, Racial Disparity, and School Suspensions

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Author(s): Jennifer Wyatt Bourgeois (Texas Southern University, USA), Melissa Kwende (Texas Southern University, USA)and Howard Henderson (Texas Southern University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 31
Source title: Approaching Disparities in School Discipline: Theory, Research, Practice, and Social Change
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anthony Troy Adams (Clark Atlanta University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3359-1.ch005

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Educational Administration and Leadership / Educational Leadership & Administration / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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This chapter will analyze school disciplinary actions across large metropolitan school districts. In recent decades, K-12 school disciplinary practices have garnered national attention from researchers, policymakers, and educators. Racial disparity among school discipline raises serious questions about continued violations of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The purpose of the chapter is to provide a series of evidence-supported recommendations for the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. The current chapter will examine the discipline records for the 2016-2017 academic school year in 19 independent school districts to identify the equitable assignment of suspensions and expulsions. Disparity ratio analysis will help us understand the relationship between race, ethnicity, and school suspension. The findings will be utilized to guide policy recommendations. The results will provide an evidence-based understanding of racial disparity in school suspensions.

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