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Students with disabilities and LGBTQ students are
also suspended at rates much higher than their nondisabled peers.
In California, African American students are 4 times
as likely to be suspended as their white peers (16.4%
vs. 4%).
There is no evidence that African-American overrepresentation in school suspension is due to higher
rates of misbehavior.10 Instead African-American
students are far more likely to be punished than
their white classmates for reasons that require
the su &