VOICE AND VIEWPOINT - In Montgomery Middle, they suspend over 35% of their Black students. Millennial Tech, 30%. Rodriguez Elementary, 27.8%. Roosevelt International, 27.7%. I can give you 30 schools that have at least a 12 percent suspension rate, and that’s not including all the alternative and special ed. or community day schools.| By Latanya West | Editor SDV&V Dr. J. Luke Wood – Photo by SDSU In February, J. Luke Wood, researcher and San Diego State University(SDSU) Distinguished Professor of Education, co-hosted a Black Minds Matter webinar to address disproportionate suspensions of African American children and youth in California schools and unveil the newly published report he […]
