Kudos and BRAVO to this sister doing what she can to stem the ‘school-to-prison’ pipeline that has been proven to disproportionately affect children of color over other fellow students. This needs to be made into a NATIONWIDE POLICY!!!

“In an effort to understand why students of color in the Minneapolis school system are 10 times more likely to receive a suspension than white students, school superintendent Bernadeia Johnson enacted a new policy where every non-violent suspension of a Black, Hispanic, or American Indian student will now be reviewed by her office before they are approved.
“Changing the trajectory for our students of color is a moral and ethical imperative, and our actions must be drastically different to achieve our goal of closing the achievement gap by 2020,” Johnson said in a statement on Friday.
The Minneapolis school system has more than 32,000 students and 70 percent of them are non-white.
The new policy is the result of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, which had been investigating the district’s lopsided suspension rate. In the last school year, suspensions for students in kindergarten through fourth grade increased by 32 percent.” (Atlanta Blackstar)