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“In most states black, Latino and special-needs (disabled) students get referred to police and courts disproportionately."

In 2015, we found that Virginia schools referred students to law enforcement at nearly 3 times the national rate in a year. Some of the schools with the highest rates of referral were middle schools, whose students usually range from 11 to 14 years old.https://t.co/bsyI6XocDI

— The Center for Public Integrity (@publicintegrity) December 24, 2019

Virginia Tops Nation in Sending Students to Cops, Courts: Where Does Your State Rank?

Center for Public Integrity

Ferriss, Susan

10 April 2015

https://publicintegrity.org/education/virginia-tops-nation-in-sending-students-to-cops-courts-where-does-your-state-rank/

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