Report: Minority, disabled kids suffer more from school suspensions, expulsions
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Students with disabilities and minority students are more likely than other pupils to face educationally disruptive, out-of-school suspensions, according to findings issued Monday by social service organizations and civil rights groups.

Across New Hampshire, minorities accounted for 23 percent of all out-of-school suspensions in the 2014-15 academic year, even though they comprised only 14 percent of the school population.

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