The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board will discuss student discipline and its disproportionate impact on minorities when the board meets on Thursday.

Black students make up just 11 percent of total enrollment, but account for 39 percent of all out-of-school suspensions and 41 percent of in-school suspensions. Latino students are 14 percent of the school population but make up between 19 and 22 percent of suspensions.

Some of the most common infractions include aggression, defiance, disruption and disrespect. Officials note that the largest disparities between white students and black students are in infractions that are the hardest to define.

School board members will review the past two years of data on suspensions to see how the implementation of a positive behavior intervention program is changing the way discipline is defined and administered.

The school board meets at 7 o’clock at Chapel Hill Town Hall. You can read the full agenda here.

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