Oakland’s success shows how Philly-wide restorative justice could work
Subsequent evaluations reported that suspensions for African-American students for disruption/willful defiance decreased by 40 percent in one year; and the Black/White discipline gap, that pervasive discrepancy between the rate at which Black students are disciplined versus their White peers (for the same alleged infractions), went down too. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)