"...inconsistencies between schools as to how students are punished..."

Gazette:  Montgomery educators discuss state’s proposed discipline policies at forum

...The state board’s proposed changes, released in February, require school systems to address the suspension disparities among races.
In public high schools in spring 2011, 9.8 percent of black students received out-of-school suspensions, compared to 5 percent of Hispanic or Latino students and 2.1 percent of white students, according to the county school system’s safety at a glance report.
The changes require school systems to come up with a plan within one year to close those gaps, and, within three years, the disparities must be gone.
When Robert Murphy, a specialist of state education department school completion and alterative programs, told the crowd that Thursday, some snickered...