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National Analysis Details Troubling Levels of Pre-existing Education Inequities for Students with Disabilities

New Research, "Disabling Inequity: The Urgent Need for Race Conscious Remedies," highlights the inequitable conditions of learning faced by students with disabilities and the lack of awareness and action that threatens to only deepen the disparate impact that the Pandemic has had on children of color with disabilities. Without an infusion of sustained funds to address the mental and behavioral health of students, to improve school climate, and to reduce the reliance on harsh and often inappropriate discipline, districts will continue to inadequately meet the needs of these students.

Black Segregation Matters: New report Details Status of Black Students – Urges Incoming Biden Administration to act to confront pervasive segregation

Providing an update on the current status of the nation’s Black students, this new report makes clear that the segregation of Black students has increased in almost every region of the nation.

National Report Calls Attention to Frequent Use of Suspension Contributing to Stark Inequities in the Opportunity to Learn

This new comprehensive analysis of 2015-16 data is the first to capture the full impact of out-of-school suspensions on instructional time for middle and high school students, and for those groups most frequently suspended, including students with disabilities.

COVID-19 Increases Urgency to End School Suspensions for Minor Student Misbehavior, Prioritize Supportive Services not Police

As students throughout the country face months of lost instruction, economic and health stressors, inequitable access to long distance learning, and inadequate special education support and services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this report is a 7-year trend analysis of school suspension data for public K-12 schools in California, as well as the relationship between suspensions and security officer presence on high school campuses.

The Striking Outlier: The Persistent, Painful and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools

According to this new study, children attending the small percentage of the nation’s public schools that allows corporal punishment face a much greater likelihood of being struck than previously understood, with black students and students with disabilities among the most likely groups to be struck