Zero Tolerance: Racially Biased Discipline in American Schools

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Zero tolerance was introduced as a get-tough approach to curb school violence. The result has been the creation of a disciplinary policy that promotes racial intolerance. Racial disparities are rampant in the current school zero-tolerance policy; legal strategies can address them.

By Judith A. Browne From May - June 2002