Inequities exist in K-12 education. Historically disenfranchised students are marginalized from classrooms because of structural and systemic racism and inequities that permeate schools across the United States (Ladson-Billings, Tate, 1997; Young, 2014). Implicit bias of educators causes students of color to be disproportionality removed from the classroom or suspended at…

By: Vasily Lokteff Educators are “street-level bureaucrats”, which means, in the end, policy implementation comes down to the people who implement it (Lipsky, 1980). In Maisha Winn’s book, “Justice of Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice”, she places the majority of responsibility for quelling the perennial problems of disproportionality…