Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students.
“It is clear there is systemic discrimination built within the education system, whether it be streaming of racialized students, suspensions overwhelmingly targeting Black and Indigenous kids, or the lack of merit-based diversity within our education workforce,” said Minister of Education Stephen Lecce
A 2017 study reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized and white students to be suspended at least once before graduating from high school. The study suggested 42 per cent of Black students were suspended at least once by the time they graduated high school, compared to 15 per cent for other racialized students and 18 per cent for white students.
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