Seattle Schools Community Forum

Crosscut is featuring this story: Charter schools suspending black students at high rates . It's full of accusations and denials.

One of the hottest stories out recently is about a study from UCLA's The Civil Rights Project.  This is what those researchers found. Executive Summary In 2011-12, every one of the nation’s 95,000 schools was required to report its school discipline data, including charter schools. This report, along with the companion spreadsheet, provides the first comprehensive description of the use of suspensions by charter schools. This report, which covers more than 5,250 charter schools, focuses on out-of-school suspension rates at the elementary and secondary levels. It specifically examines the extent to which charter schools suspend children of color and children with disabilities at excessive and disparate rates.