Labels for pie charts illustrating expulsion and suspension data by race/ethnicity in the 2009-10 school year were transposed on Page 13 of Quality Counts 2013, which accompanies this issue of Education Week. The correctly labeled charts appear here. The U.S. Department of Education’s overall data set includes 42 million students in about 72,000 schools. Black students were overrepresented in disciplinary actions schools took in the 2009-10 school year.
A version of this article appeared in the January 09, 2013 edition of Education Week as Correction: Quality Counts 2013