Black Students More Likely to Be Suspended When Teachers Resign

Black students are more likely to get in trouble in schools where teachers are leaving left and right.

(WIB) – Low pay and high stress — that combination alone drives many educators to a tough decision: resigning. Although we picture teachers sticking it out in the classroom until the end of the school year, that’s not always the case. When they walk out midyear, their students are left dealing with a revolving door of substitutes, disrupted learning, and increased discipline.

Indeed, Black and “extremely underrepresented” students are more likely to be sent to the office and suspended than their Hispanic and Asian peers in schools where there is a high teacher turnover, according to a new study.

The research, published in

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