State discipline law keeps Black, Latino kids in class. ... Black students accounted for 17% of total suspensions in California — despite making up less than 6% of the student population. ...

She supplements her children’s learning with coursework provided through Acellus Academy, an online K-12 private school that offers classes in Spanish, history and other subjects.

But Census data show this trend especially applies to black families: In 2020, just 41.3% of black kids were growing up in a two-parent home, compared to 78.6% of white kids.

As one of the only Black kids in predominantly white schools in upper-middle-class communities — including the university enclaves of Palo Alto, California, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina ...

The Black Mothers Forum's micro-schools serve a total of 42 K-8 students in the Tempe and South Phoenix areas. Classes are small — student-teacher ratios are 5:1 — and are mixed-age, so ...

This is the vision Nakia Bowling has for young Black children in the ... who founded an after-school program at Miami Shores Elementary learns some new steps along with children during a dance class.

A Walpole family is seeking answers from the local school district and police department after a 9-year-old Black student with special needs was allegedly handcuffed while having a mental health ...

Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher. There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public ...