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Virginia schools push students out of school through “widespread, discriminatory overuse” of suspension and expulsion, according to a new report from the Virginia Legal Aid Justice Center’s JustChildren program.

The Charlottesville-based nonprofit analyzed data that schools reported to the Virginia Department of Education for the 2014-15 school year. Schools must report the number students who receive either short-term or long-term suspensions and the number of students who are expelled.

Among the findings in the Legal Aid Justice Center’s report, ”Suspended Progress”:

One-fifth of all suspensions in the state went to students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade;

Nonviolent offenses like “disruption,” “defiance” and “disrespect” accounted for the majority of suspensions;

Black students and those with disabilities were suspended disproportionately to their peers.

In the Roanoke and New River Valleys, two school districts were identified as having either large disparities or high rates of suspensions.