And unfortunately, it seems as though we can't get beyond the hand-wringing stage.
Wisconsin Public Radio, 3/29/2022
A new report from the national progressive nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy and the Wisconsin-based youth advocacy group Leaders Igniting Transformation found today, suspension disparities are even higher — 32 percent higher than the share of Black students — and expulsion disparities have dropped only slightly, to a 22 percent difference. White students, meanwhile, are 10 percent of the student body, 3 percent of suspensions and 5 percent of expulsions.
"This all has been going on for quite a while, so I don’t know if it’s surprising, but the term I would use is 'shocking,'" said study co-author Marc Rodrigues, with the Center for Popular Democracy. "There’s just a shocking amount of consistency and continuity in what’s going on at MPS — you would think that by now, more would have been done to address that."
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