Structural limitations and functional alternatives reducing suspensions and preserving racial suspension gaps

• Main Author: Trinidad, Jose Eos R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Suspension; discipline; Chicago Public Schools; racial bias; Education; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Educational Methods
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/is-faculty-pubs/5; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2018.1538119
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Although studies on school suspensions focus on the disproportionate number of Black students receiving them, policy changes reducing suspensions offer new insights into the racial gap. Using annual school-level data from the Chicago Public Schools (2012–2016), I evaluate how a suspension reduction...