School suspensions and removals declined by almost 10 percent during the past academic year, according to Department of Education data released Nov. 1.
There were 45,216 suspensions and removals between July 2018 and June 2019, down from 49,293 during that same period a year earlier. Although the number of suspensions given out has decreased by 38.7 percent since the beginning of the de Blasio administration, the 2017-2018 school year saw a 4-percent increase. The jump was thanks to a 21-percent spike during the months that followed the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Michael McCree at the since-closed Urban Assembly for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx.
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