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From homeroom to handcuffs: Part 1 – Data shows African American and disabled students are disproportionately caught in the school-to-prison pipeline in Maryland public schools, many for low-level offenses

An 11-year-old student was arrested and taken to jail for refusing to sit in her assigned seat within an Anne Arundel County public school classroom, and the incident is indicative of a larger issue of racial and disability-based disparities in school-based arrests in Maryland.

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