High Number of Latino Students Suspended In Pennsylvania, ACLU Report Says
Pennsylvania’s public schools suspend Latino and African-American students at rates higher than the national average – creating an educational crisis that reaches far beyond the state’s troubled Philadelphia school system, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Over the past 15 years, one out of every 10 Latino students in Pennsylvania was suspended from school, giving the state one of the highest Hispanic suspension rates in the country, according to the report released by the ACLU entitled “Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Public Schools.”
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