LETTER Re: RIDE School Discipline Report
This letter was sent to the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) Commissioner and Chair of Council on Elementary and Secondary Education, requesting that both take action to ensure that school districts are complying with an important state law designed to address the very serious problem of racial and other disparities in the use of out-of-school suspensions on children.
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