The state's Office of the Child Advocate's office heard  that a child had been expelled from preschool.  She also had learned that a 7-year-old had been arrested while at school.

Jamey Bell, the child advocate, saw no reason why a child that young should be suspended, and wanted to know how widespread the problem was. She would soon find out  there were 1,967 incidents of students age 6 and under that were suspended last year  from Ct schools.
The district-by-district suspension data compiled by the Connecticut State Department of Education show some districts have much higher rates of suspensions . For example, New Haven had 89 incidents of students 6 years old and younger last year being suspended, while Waterbury, which has an almost identical student enrollment, had 173 suspensions. Windham comes in with 27 suspensions, (See Q & A's with Windham's central office)

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