Eighteen months after state education leaders urged reform to “zerotolerance” discipline policies, an analysis of two large Michigan school
districts found that they still impose disproportionate numbers of
suspensions and expulsions on minority students (Roelofs 2014).Thus,
while researchers and education leaders protest the use of zero tolerance
policies, these policies continue to adversely impact African American
students.
Ted Roelofs, writer for the Bridge Magazine
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