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Why are black girls punished more than their white peers?
Unfortunately, Maryland does not provide similarly disaggregated data, so it is hard to analyze exactly how students here fare. However, it is unlikely the state is far from the national average — which, according to the National Women’s Law Center in 2016, showed that black girls were likely to be suspended at 4.3 times the rate of their white peers.