Is the Racial Gap in Suspensions Due to Racism? | Intellectual Takeout

Is the Racial Gap in Suspensions Due to Racism? | Intellectual Takeout
"Black students are suspended from school at a higher rate than white students.
...As even the liberal Brookings Institution has noted, “black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12–17 that come from single-parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two-parent families.”...
The homicide rate is 10 times higher among black teens than white teens. 
...But in February 17 column in the Times-Dispatch, Richmond school superintendent Jason Kamras argued that the higher black suspension rate in Virginia is due to “institutional racism.”...
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