SUMMARY - School Discipline and Disproportion
School discipline systems are meant to maintain safe, orderly learning environments. But discipline isn't applied equally. Data consistently show that Black students, Indigenous students, students with disabilities, and students from other marginalized groups receive discipline at rates far exceeding their share of student population. This disproportionality raises fundamental questions about whether discipline systems are fair, what produces disparate outcomes, and how schools should respond to both student behavior and systemic inequality.