School suspensiond steady, despite mayor’s vow to reduce them

Mayor de Blasio vowed to lower the number of school student suspensions but the figure has remained about the same over the past two school years.

School administrators doled out 53,504 suspensions during the 2013-14 school year — 39 more than the previous year, according to school data.

Civil rights advocates slammed the city for not doing more to limit the practice.

Black and Latino students received 89 percent of school suspensions last year although they make up about 70 percent of the city’s school population, according to the data.

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