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School discipline tougher on African Americans
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By Howard Witt
Tribune senior correspondent
September 25 2007
AUSTIN, Texas -- In the average New Jersey public school, African-American students are almost 60 times as likely as white students to be expelled for serious disciplinary infractions.
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