Chicago Public Schools is the third-largest school district in the United States, with more than six hundred schools serving about four hundred thousand children.36 With a student population that is 39 percent African American, 46 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent White, Chicago Public Schools is composed primarily of youth of color.37 Chicago is now in the arduous process of dismantling zerotolerance policies; however, it will take decades to unravel the legacy of punishment and reduce the Black student marginalization produced by years of relying on exclusionary discipline.
