Your story about discipline in Seattle schools

KUOW has reported that the Education Department is investigating discipline rates in Seattle Public Schools. Students of color are punished in far higher numbers than white students in Seattle. Now the department's Office for Civil Rights is looking at whether black students are disciplined more frequently and more harshly than white students for the same behavior.

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