Students with disabilities were more than twice as likely to receive out-of-school suspensions as students without disabilities. African-American K-12 students were 3.8 times as likely to receive out-of-school suspensions as white students. African-American students were 2.2 times as likely to receive a referral to law enforcement or be subject to a school-related arrest as were white students. American Indian or Alaska Native, Latino, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and multiracial boys were also disproportionately suspended from school, representing 15 percent of K-12 students but
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