The numbers are startling. In every school district – urban, suburban or rural – surveys show that black kids are more likely to be suspended than whites or Latinos or Asians. The discrepancies are large. In the Sacramento City Unified School District, for example, 20 percent of black students were suspended in the 2009-10 school year, compared with 8.9 percent of students overall.

via Editorial: Schools rely on suspensions far too often.