Profiled & Punished: How San Diego Schools Undermine Latino & African American Student Achievement

Using data from the San Diego City School District as a case study, Profiled and Punished offers a clear description of the ways discipline policies and practices disadvantage Black and Latino students. It examines how the policies of the San Diego Dity School District result in unequal education opportunity in the following ways: racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions, unequal access to advanced placement/college preparatory classes, unequal graduation rates, and a signficant demographic shift in the student population unaccompanied by a similar change in the teaching force. The report also documents several alternative approaches to school discipline that ensure classroom safety while building healthy, equitable public schools.