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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5782
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 233
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. GIBSON, 15th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY OF MINORITY STUDENT
SUSPENSIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to require the 1
Department of Education to conduct a study and make 2
recommendations concerning the issue of how suspensions and other 3
forms of student discipline are disproportionately punitive to minority 4
students, particularly black female students. 5
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Education to examine the
disproportionately punitive nature of student discipline on minority
students.