Connecticut Voices For Children Out….

with a report looking at suspended kids in the Connecticut. A grand total of 41,227 suspensions occurred in the 2006-2007 school year.

They say in the 2006-2007 school year on any given day 4,100 students were suspended.

The lower the social economic ladder the school district the more suspensions you got.

Around 66% of the suspensions were for “school policy violations.”

Black and Hispanic students were suspended far greater than Whites and Aisians.

15% of special education students got suspended while only 6% of regular education kids did.

Ninth grade saw the highest amount of suspension, then it dropped to a lower number in 10th 11th, and 12th grade.