Why Black students are still disciplined at higher rates: Takeaways from AP’s report

Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice.

A decade later, change has been slow to materialize.

In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being transferred to alternative schools.

Those differences became the target of a newly energized reform movement...