'Concentrated disadvantage' drives Chicago discipline disparities, study finds

High suspension rates in Chicago schools are driven by a cluster of schools with high concentrations of "extremely disadvantaged students," a new report finds.

That means a Chicago student with the same ethnic background, family income level, and gender is less likely to be suspended in a school with low concentrations of extreme poverty than in a school with higher concentrations, says the study from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research...