The Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA

New Reports Released


Police Presence in Schools Does Not Increase School Safety and Harms Students of Color (2021)

Downloadable Files: Briefing Paper

Lost Opportunities: How Disparate School Discipline Continues to Drive Differences in the Opportunity to Learn (2020)

Downloadable Files: Executive Summary | Full Report | Press Release | Supplemental Excel Workbook

Is California Doing Enough to Close the School Discipline Gap? (2020)

Downloadable Files: Executive Summary | Full Report | Press Release | Supplemental Excel Workbook



“Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Promise Unfulfilled”. CCRR's director Daniel J. Losen written testimony submitted to the U.S. Committee on Education and Labor on April 30, 2019.

Downloadable Files: Written Testimony

Nationwide Suspension Rates at U.S. Schools (2011-12)

Elementary and Secondary Rates by Subgroup


Find data on your school district:


Additional Information

You can file a request for the 2017-18 academic year data that is collected by the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection, by asking your local district directly and referring to your state's "sunshine act." Stay tuned for templates for filing these requests.


Note: While some states have more recent discipline data, many states publish no discipline data. To view a 50-state survey with live links to relevant state websites, please click here. To view state data sources for students with disibilities, please click here.

Further breakdown of race with disability status and race with gender are possible with some, but not all, of the choices above. For even more detail, please see our complete spreadsheets with all available U.S. district data:

To find whether the suspension rates in your district are rising or falling (trends), please see our complete spreadsheets:

To read our most recent national report on school suspension rates, select the links below:


To read our recent report on the cost and implications of school discipline, please select the links below:

Please select the links below to read our comprehensive report on charter schools and school discipline:

Please note: In Table 1 of our report, the list of highest suspending charter schools should reflect the fact that Northstar High School no longer exists and Dallas Can Academy is best considered an alternative school. Therefore, two charters should be added to highest suspending in nation for Latinos: Lake Wales in FL 45.3% and Roxbury Prep in MA, 44.7%

To read our most recent report on school discipline in California, please select the links below:

Information for Teachers: See this AFT Special Edition of American Educator, Seeding Change in School Discipline, for guidance for teachers.


How Do We Fix the School-to-Prison Pipeline? (Podcast with transcript, featuring Daniel J. Losen, Director of the Civil Rights Project's Center for Civil Rights Remedies)

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Closing the School Discipline Gap

Closing the School Discipline Gap: Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion may be purchased from the Civil Rights Project or at Teachers College Press.

For a limited time, your tax-deductible donation of $100 or more to the Civil Rights Project will be rewarded with a copy of Closing the School Discipline Gap (supplies limited).

You can donate on-line or send a check payable to "UC Regents" to: UCLA Civil Rights Project, 3323 Moore Hall, Box 951521, Los Angeles, CA 90095.



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