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America's public schools are unequal when measured in terms of disciplinary sanctions such as suspensions and expulsions, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education for 2004-05. In the average New Jersey public school, African-American students are almost 60 times as likely as white students to be expelled for serious disciplinary infractions. In Minnesota, black students are suspended six times as often as whites. In Iowa, blacks make up just 5 percent of the statewide public school enrollment but account for 22 percent of the students who get suspended.
