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On Monday, a report on discipline was published showing a decline for the county in overall infractions. However the number of suspensions rose slightly to 5,029 last year. When you break the number of suspensions down by race, the numbers become troubling. This is an issue because when you look at the suspensions for African-Americans, who make up about a quarter of the total students, and received 63% of the 5,029 suspensions last year. Out of the 5,029 suspensions, 16% were given to white kids, 15% to Hispanics, and 62% to blacks. By contrast, the percent of the total students are 47% white, 17% Hispanic and 23% black. One way to fix this is to be harsher on repeat offenders. This interested me because I didn't know that black students made up so much of the suspension rate.
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