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Minneapolis School District Now Needs ‘Permission’ to Suspend Any Black, Hispanic Student

Minneapolis School District Now Needs ‘Permission’ to Suspend Any Black, Hispanic Student he Minneapolis public school system announced a major new district-wide policy for disciplining students: any suspension of a non-white student requires the district superintendent’s approval. The MPS has been stung by reports that students of color are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students. The Minneapolis school system has an enrollment of over 32,000 students. Seventy percent are non-white. School superintendent Bernadeia Johnson, a black woman, maintains that she wants to “disrupt” the current suspension trends. Superintendent Johnson says that her new policy is… View Article