While efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline tend to focus on boys and young men of color, girls and young women of color also face many of the same challenges, a report from the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies finds.
The report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected (53 pages), argues that zero-tolerance policies result in disproportionately high rates of out-of-school suspensions for African-American girls and undermine their achievement in and attachment to school. According to federal data, African-American girls were six times as likely to be suspended as their white counterparts in the 2011-12 school year, while African-American boys were three times as likely to be suspended as white boys. The report found similar patterns in New York City and Boston public school districts, with far higher rates of disciplinary action, suspension, and expulsion among African-American females than among their white counterparts and wider racial disparities than between black males and white males.
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