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Why School Dress Codes Are Often Biased Against Black Girls
But beyond a murky sense of unconscious or conscious bias, the root causes of these disparities—and how to remedy them—doesn’t seem all that clear. A new report from the National Women’s Law Center aims to help fill in that gap, homing in on one underlying origin of the discipline disparity between black girls and their peers: dress codes.