By: Dallas News

Black students in Texas are much more likely to be kicked out of their regular classrooms than children of other races when the decision is left up to school administrators, according to state data from the last three years.

Texas Education Agency data shows that black student referrals to “disciplinary alternative education programs” were twice the rate of those for Hispanic students and three times the rate for white students for incidents not serious enough to warrant automatic removal.

In these lower level cases, administrators can decide if a student should leave the school. And for black students, one child out of 30 was removed in 2009-10, compared with one in 96 white students and one of 62 Hispanic students.

The trend is not new. Read more