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Results demonstrate that schools located in more segregated districts tend to have lower racial disparities in suspensions for black students,
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Results confirms that black students are facing far more school discipline than what we would expect given the racial composition of schools.
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With regard to school demographics, we see that larger schools have a higher disciplinary imbalance than smaller schools while schools with a higher percentage of students from low-income families have a lower disciplinary imbalance.
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As schools are more segregated than the population of the district would suggest, the suspension imbalance ratio decreases. In more segregated districts, suspensions administered to black students take place at a rate closer to what we would expect, given enrollment patterns, than in less segregated districts.
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Findings suggest that increasing levels of segregation decrease the racial suspension imbalance significantly for black students enrolled in public secondary schools. In other words, as the proportion of black students attending school with the average white student increases in a district beyond what we would expect given the district’s composition, so does the suspension
imbalance ratio for suspensions administered to black students.
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They find that compositional measures of segregation at the district level explain far more of the variation in disciplinary imbalance than measures that capture how students are distributed across schools.