Isn't it, however, the official policy now of the Department of Education that the cause of these disparate rates of discipline that we see with students of color is explained by the fact that these children are just inherently predisposed to misbehave and disrupt the classroom more than White children?
Questioning the Department of Education's policy on discipline disparities.
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