{"id":13836,"date":"2025-11-11T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=13836"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:52:38","slug":"13836","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ur\/articles\/13836\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC school suspensions fall to lowest level since the pandemic, but stark disparities remain"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13836","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-discipline","topic_tax-foster-students","misc_topic-family-engagement"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"\u0622\u0631\u0679\u06cc\u06a9\u0644 \u067e\u0691\u06be\u06cc\u06ba","url":"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/11\/11\/nyc-school-suspensions-dip-fueled-by-decline-in-lengthy-punishments\/","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":13837,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>Chalkbeat <\/strong>| Lengthy suspensions have recently drawn increased scrutiny. Legal Services NYC, a public interest group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/05\/23\/long-term-suspensions-nyc-schools-violate-student-rights-lawsuit-claims\/\" rel=\"\">filed a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0in May alleging the city uses an inappropriately low standard of proof in suspension hearings, violating the U.S. Constitution. (City officials have moved to dismiss the case.) Schools have also routinely suspended students with disabilities for longer than legally allowed by federal law,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/05\/21\/nyc-public-schools-suspend-students-with-disabilities-in-unlawful-manner\/\" rel=\"\">a Chalkbeat investigation found<\/a>.\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">\u201cThere haven\u2019t been any clear policy changes,\u201d said Rohini Singh, the director of the school justice project at Advocates for Children, which helps families to navigate the suspension process. \u201cCertainly, we\u2019re happy to see that the overall number of suspensions is decreasing.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">Still, Singh noted that troubling disparities persist.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">Children living in foster care were at least four times as likely to be suspended as their peers, an uptick from last year, according to an analysis from the group Advocates for Children, which has pushed for reforms to school discipline policies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"newsletter-composer\">\r\n<div class=\"content\">\r\n<div class=\"col-desc\">\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has said little about how he would approach school discipline, though his campaign platform emphasized mental health support for students. Some advocates called on the incoming administration to boost funding for those programs and ensure long-term support for other mental health initiatives that have had to\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/03\/20\/eric-adams-mental-health-continuum-school-based-clinics-funding-budget-cut\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/03\/20\/eric-adams-mental-health-continuum-school-based-clinics-funding-budget-cut\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">fight to maintain funding each year<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re encouraged by a lot of what we\u2019ve heard, but it still remains to be seen what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[24,21],"misc_topics":[186]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13837}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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