Culturally Inclusive and Responsive Curricular Environments (CIRCLE scale)
Category: Student Well-Being
Using data from the 2017–18 and 2020–21 Civil Rights Data Collection, we document dispari-ties in exposure to security personnel across US high schools and geographic levels. We dis-tinguish between law enforcement officers (LEOs) and school security guards (SSGs) to cap-ture variation in how security roles are deployed. Results show that Black and Hispanic stu-dents experience greater exposure to security personnel than White students. The disparity mainly arises from differences in exposure to SSGs and district and metropolitan variation, although disparities are present across all geographic scales and for law enforcement officers. Our findings suggest that reform should not only focus on officer presence within schools but also structural inequalities in security personnel deployment by type and across districts and regions.
Keywords
Ethnic and racial disparities, school policing, school security guards, Civil Rights Data Collec-tion, education policy
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Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/zs00-vv71
