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THE FACTS
CORE ISSUES:
EveryBlackGirl Inc.
organizes and provides programming to address the conditions leading to BlackGirls being pushed out of schools and becoming at risk for arrest, confinement and incarceration. Specifically, EveryBlackGirl, Inc. is interested in creating change to prevent:
Disciplinary Referrals, Suspensions,and Expulsions of BlackGirls
State and Interpersonal Violence
Anti-Blackness and invisibilization of BlackGirls
Black Girls are...
Black Girls are
3X
more likely to receive 1 or more
suspensions than white female students.
IN SCHOOL
Black Girls are
3 X
more likely to be
than white female students.
RESTRAINED
Black Girls are
6 X
more likely than white girls to be
SUSPENDED
Black Girls are
2 X
more likely to receive
than white female students.
CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT
Black Girls are
3 X
more likely to be referred to
than white females.
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Black Girls are
2 X
more likely than white females to be
ARRESTED
*SOURCE: Discipline Data for Girls in US Public Schools, Department of Education office for Civil Rights, 2018
BLACK GIRLS are
3X
more likely to receive 1 or more
SUSPENSIONS
than white female students.
6 X
more likely than white girls to be
SUSPENDED
3 X
more likely to be
RESTRAINED
than white female students.
2 X
more likely to receive
CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT
than white female students.
3 X
more likely to be
referred to
LAW ENFORCEMENT
than white females.
2 X
more likely than white females to be
ARRESTED
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