Digital Extra

PART ONE
June 17, 2001

• Suspended
• When are they too young to suspend?
• Numbers show how suspension is used
• CHART: Suspensions by grade

PART TWO
June 24, 2001

• Blacks suspended at higher rate
• Innovative schools explore alternatives to suspension
• What students have to say
• Rhode Island law / Online exclusive
• CHART: Out-of-school suspensions, State by state

AFTERMATH

2.15.02
• Panel urges changes in student suspensions

6.30.2001
• Legislators call for end to bias in schools
• THE BILL: H 6578, Directing the education commissioner to look at racial aspects of school discipline and eliminate racial bias in R.I. schools