{"id":13833,"date":"2025-11-11T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&p=13833"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:46:52","slug":"nyc-school-suspensions-down-but-unevenly-as-black-special-ed-students-disciplined-most","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/articles\/nyc-school-suspensions-down-but-unevenly-as-black-special-ed-students-disciplined-most\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC school suspensions down, but unevenly, as Black, special-ed students disciplined most"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13833","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-discipline","misc_topic-family-engagement"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"Li atik la","url":"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/11\/nyc-school-suspensions-down-unevenly-black-special-ed-students-disciplined-most\/","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":13834,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Daily News\u00a0<\/strong>| While New York City public schools are issuing\u00a0fewer suspensions overall<\/a>, sharp disparities by race and disability status remain, according to new data.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe cannot ignore that this decline was not felt equally across the system,\u201d said Maria Odom, executive director of Advocates for Children of New York, which\u00a0weighed in on the data<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday.\r\n\r\nAs suspensions decreased overall last year, so did what are known as\u00a0\u201csuperintendent\u2019s suspensions,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which can keep students out of class for more than a week. The long-term suspensions, which are reserved for more serious infractions and subject to disciplinary hearings, plummeted by 10% last school year, according to the report.\r\n\r\nHowever, the racial and disability status imbalances were particularly acute for superintendent\u2019s suspensions, Advocates for Children found. Black students, who make up a fifth of all students, received 47% of the lengthy punishments \u2014 an increase of 2.4 percentage points from the year before.\r\n\r\nTotal suspensions were also up for students who were homeless or\u00a0in foster care, who were suspended at four times the rate of their classmates<\/a>, according to Advocates for Children\u2019s analysis.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that the next administration will [understand] punitive discipline is, for the most part, harmful to young people, and does not actually address the root causes of behavior,\u201d said Rohini Singh, director of the school justice project at Advocates for Children.\r\n\r\n\u201cAccountability is part of restorative justice,\u201d she added, \u201chelping students understand the harm that their behavior can cause \u2014 which can lead them to change their behavior.\u201d","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[24],"misc_topics":[186]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13834}}},"yoast_head":"\nNYC school suspensions down, but unevenly, as Black, special-ed students disciplined most - 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