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Articles Tagged "Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice"

  • Tue., March 6, 2012 5:47pm
    School Suspensions Show Racial Imbalance
    Officials with the US Department of Education released a report Tuesday questioning whether schools across the country are treating minority students equally when it comes to discipline. The report shows, African-Americans are more than three times as likely to be suspended or expelled than white students for similar offenses. A Georgia-based law center found similar numbers here.
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  • Thu., June 16, 2011 3:39pm
    Georgia Out-Of-School Suspension Rate High
    A new report says that the state’s rate of out-of-school suspensions is one of the highest in the nation. Last school year, roughly 8 percent of Georgia students were suspended out of school at least once. And in some school districts, nearly one in five students receives out of school suspensions.
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