In the last school year, Kern County schools were four times more likely to expel a student than any other county in California. The raw number of students expelled in Kern was bigger than the number expelled in Los Angeles, which has a student body nine times the size. Expulsions and suspensions are particularly high among students of color.
We talk with Susan Ferriss, lead juvenile justice reporter at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C.
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