New data highlights troubling racial disparities in Wake County school discipline North Carolina’s largest public school system under pressure to modify its deployment of School Resource Officers Nearly 70 percent of law enforcement referrals made in Wake County schools over the last two years involved African American students. That overwhelmingly high rate comes despite black students making up less than a quarter of total student enrollment in Wake County Public School System (WCPSS). It’s one of several key findings gleaned in new district data obtained by Policy Watch from administrators in North Carolina’s largest public school system, almost three months after a Wake school resource officer’s violent clash with a black ... Continue reading... http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2017/0...al-disparities-wake-county-school-discipline/
