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School climates, reducing school suspensions and decreasing student arrests. nikki, pardon the interruption, will you also apparently it is working because so far this year only 8% of the eighth graders have been suspended and we're already to february. >> what i'm going to say is i don't know that it's necessarily working. there has been a policy the last couple of years that's changed the criteria in which suspensions are given to students. and i do think that there should be positive reinforcement. but why aren't we rewarding students for good grades? why aren't we rewarding students for po...

Springs, texas. what more do we know about him? >> reporter: poppy, we actually just got the disciplinary record of devin kelley from high school. from new braunfels independent school district. this ranges from 2002 to 2009. nine disciplinary infractions. they range from drugs to truancy, dishonesty and falsifying records to profane gestures and movements. so some of those resulted in out of school suspensions, some within school suspensions. but it does seem to start fitting the pattern that we have seen over the past couple of days, put together, of a series of red flags from those assault ...

Kind of talk about the issues they care about, which is why something like prison reform, why reforming school dislynn so that out of school suspensions for young black and latino males have dropped by 50%, 60% in some of the largest districts here in california. why that's happened is because that integrated voter engagement really is a different strategy. >> i love that. i love the idea that that's how you engage voters in this kind of deeper way. i love the idea of the automatic voter registration. but the reality is when you look at your voter turnout, it was appallingly low in -- i mean i...

Helmet. i trust my child. >> they claim the assault was an accident. the player is suspended from school now. police are investigating. the player that was hit in the head received 10 stitches after the game. >> they say his first amendment rights from violated for junior high school students punished for wearing confederate flags on their clothing. >> 23 students were given in school suspensions after refusing to change saying the flag represents heritage. >> we are going to come back and fly our confederate flags high and it will keep going on until we get what we want back. >> 17 of those s...

Likely to be suspended than others. almost a quarter of black, middle and high school students were suspended, more than three times the rate of suspension for whoit students. and students with disabilities are much more likely to face suspensions than the general school population. so how to end the disparity in our school suspensions. well, you could just end out-of-school suspensions altogether and this year one of the largest in the country, miami-dade, is planning to do just that. joining me now from miami, florida, is alberto who is the superintendent of the miami-dade county public scho...