The Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education, released last week, the results of the national data collection for the 2011-2012 school year.
African American students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students; and students with disabilities are more than twice as likely to receive out-of-school suspensions that students without disabilities.
Another shocking statistic: students with disabilities represent a quarter of the students arrested and referred to law enforcement, even though they represent 12% of the student population!