Suspension rates in Sacramento high schools exceed national average

In the 2009-2010 school year, the Sacramento City Unified School District issued 8,047 suspensions, 70% of which were Hispanic and Black students.  More than half those were categorized as “willful defiance. Most of all suspensions surveyed were for minor infractions.  A single suspension also increases the likelihood that the student will end up dropping out.  A discussion of this issue and its reverberations, particularly in California, is on Access Sacramento.