A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines
The Lowe Down
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. Low income students are 9 percentage points more likely to be suspended in a given year than their non-low-income peers, the Education Research Alliance finds.
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