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The Departments of Education and Justice together issued new guidance on Wednesday to help public schools administer student discipline without discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.
Data shows that students of color face harsher punishments for committing the same actions as their white peers.
RT's Perianne Boring talks to Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA's Civil Rights Project, about punishments in schools, and how these new guidelines may come into conflict with many schools' "zero tolerance" policies.
