School discipline rates higher for local students of color: “The system needs to get fixed”

Cani Adan hears many of the complaints from parents, but so far, he says there’s been little he can do to help keep students of color from facing suspensions in local schools.

“A lot of parents walk in and tell us about that,” said Adan, program coordinator for the Afro American Development Association in Moorhead. “They are wondering why their kids are coming home."

In the Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead school districts, students of color are being disciplined at higher rates than their white classmates, according to a Forum analysis of statistics for the three districts.