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In a piece last year about Obama administration guidance to schools on the issue, he noted, "Put another way, the [Obama] administration was demanding racial parity in school discipline, regardless of who was being disruptive, which is as silly as demanding racial parity in police arrests, regardless of who's committing crimes. The result is that more schools have been disciplining fewer students in order to achieve racial balance in suspension rates and stay out of trouble with the federal government."
Riley, who is black, also noted many schools where "these uneven discipline rates persist have minority principals and no shortage of minority teachers and administrators."
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