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Years of reform efforts aid decline in suspension rates for black students

After nearly a decade of school discipline reform in California, the suspension rate for African American students continued to decline last year, according to recently released state data. The statewide suspension rate was 3.5 percent in 2018-19, the same as the year before, but the suspension rate among black students fell from 9.4 percent to […]