Cosponsor the Ending PUSHOUT Act

Schools suspended about 2.4 million students and referred about 220,000 to police in 2021-22, and the students removed most often are Black students and students with disabilities.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 26, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter School-to-Prison Pipeline How suspensions and school arrests push students out, and what parents can do

The Letter

Subject Please Cosponsor the Ending PUSHOUT Act (H.R. 2738 / S. 1338)

Kids should be in school learning, not sent home or put in handcuffs for talking back. Right now, too many of them are.

In the 2021-22 school year, public schools gave about 2.4 million students an out-of-school suspension, including nearly 2,700 preschoolers. Schools referred about 220,000 students to police. Black students were 15% of students and 33% of those arrested at school. Students with disabilities were 14% of students and a quarter of those arrested.

Those numbers do not stay in the principal's office. When a boundary change sent similar students in Charlotte to stricter middle schools, those students were more likely to be arrested and jailed as adults and less likely to go to college. Every suspension also costs a parent work days and a child learning time they do not get back.

The Ending PUSHOUT Act, H.R. 2738 in the House and S. 1338 in the Senate, would fund schools that stop suspending young children except for serious injuries, stop suspending older students for defiance, lateness or dress code violations, and end paddling and seclusion. It would also require the data parents need to see who is being removed from class and why.

Discipline should teach a child something, and it should not follow them into adulthood. Please cosponsor the Ending PUSHOUT Act and push for a vote.

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I'm a constituent calling to ask the member to cosponsor the Ending PUSHOUT Act, H.R. 2738 in the House and S. 1338 in the Senate.
Public schools suspended about 2.4 million students out of school in 2021-22, including nearly 2,700 preschoolers.
Black students were 15% of students but 33% of students arrested at school, and students with disabilities were a quarter of those arrested.
The bill funds schools that stop suspending young children except for serious injuries and stop suspending students for defiance or lateness. Please cosponsor it.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

2.4 million students received an out-of-school suspension in 2021-22, about 5% of public school students (source)
33% of students arrested at school in 2021-22 were Black, though Black students were 15% of enrollment (source)
20% higher chance of adult incarceration for Charlotte students assigned to a stricter middle school (source)

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