The Role of the Federal Government in Tracking Disparities in School Discipline

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In 2014 the Obama administration putting guidelines in place regarding school discipline that were in part aimed at lessening these disparities. Do you think there is a fix for this on the national level or is the solution really based regionally in school districts? Francis Periman: There's always room to sort of nuance policies in ways that make them more responsive to the local conditions that exist in and around a school system.

This Juneteenth, we’re sharing an episode of The Weeds, a Vox Media podcast where host Jonquilyn Hill breaks down the policies that shape our lives.

This episode digs into school discipline and the achievement gap with Francis Pearman of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. For many Black children, their first encounter with the discrimination that will trail them their whole lives comes from the school system — a system where they are five times more likely to attend a segregated school than their white counterparts.

Kara & Nayeema will be back Thursday with a fresh episode of ON.

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