Last week, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that used 2013-14 Civil Rights collection data from over 95,000 US schools and showed K-12 African-American students, male students, and students with disabilities are disproportionately disciplined on a consistent basis regardless of the type of disciplinary action (i.e., suspensions, expulsions, and referrals to local law enforcement), poverty level of the school attended, or the type of public school attended. The report stated that, although African-American students represent only 15.5% of all public school students, they comprise about 39 % of suspended students. The lead researcher cited “unconscious bias” as a factor in this disparity, resulting in students of color receiving harsher punishments than their peers. Further, in a new twist, the GAO report also stated that discipline disparities transcend poverty.