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Schools are six times more likely to suspend Black girls than white girls. 

Schools are three times more likely to suspend Black boys than white boys. 

There are more security officers than counselors in three of the five largest school districts in the U.S.

The statistics won’t come as a shock to those aware of the “school-to-prison pipeline,” a series of policies and practices that push students, especially those most at-risk, from classrooms to the criminal justice system at a young age. 

It’s time we change the conversation and the policy that leads to more incarceration, inequality and hopelessness for so many.

Join the Issue Time discussion on the school to prison pipeline.