Texas Study Questions Punishment in Schools

An amazingly thorough study of a million kids in Texas says Black kids are entering the “school-to-prison pipeline” at much higher rates than their white and Latino peers.

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In a new study of Texas schools, a study so deep and thorough it’s being called “unprecedented” by the Washington Post, the whimsical and often unfair nature of school discipline has been exposed. We’ve told you before that racial disparities in school punishments have long been an issue in America, with the NAACP recently filing a discrimination charge against a group of schools in Maryland. Today, with the Texas study following literally one million children, we now know how awful the problem has become.