NYC Schools Fail to Protect Students with Disabilities From Lengthy Suspensions

NYC Schools Fail to Protect Students with Disabilities From Lengthy Suspensions

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat.After trading taunts with a classmate one morning in March 2023, Tristan threw a punch that busted the other student’s lip. A teacher who intervened wound up with a bloody nose and swollen lip in the ensuing scuffle. Then a ninth grader at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Tristan later took responsibility for starting the fight. “I hit him first — that’s where I was wrong,” sa…