School environment plays an important role in student outcomes. Increasingly, research has also highlighted the role school environment plays in the White–Black suspension gap. We test whether magnet schools reduce the White–Black suspension gap using data from Tulsa Public Schools. Using student-level and incident-level data from Tulsa, Oklahoma, we explore whether Black students receive exclusionary discipline at lower rates in magnet schools than in traditional schools compared with White students. Using matching techniques to minimize selection bias, we find that magnet schools in Tulsa are associated with a reduction in the racial suspension gap. In magnet schools in Tulsa, we do not find a racial gap in severity of incident or days assigned.

学校环境对学生的成绩起着重要作用。越来越多的研究也强调了学校环境在白黑悬挂差距中的作用。我们使用来自塔尔萨公立学校的数据测试磁铁学校是否减少了白黑悬挂差距。使用来自俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨的学生级和事件级数据，我们探讨了与白人学生相比，黑人学生在磁铁学校接受排他性纪律的比率是否低于传统学校。使用匹配技术来最小化选择偏差，我们发现塔尔萨的磁铁学校与种族暂停差距的减少有关。在塔尔萨的磁铁学校，我们没有发现事件严重程度或分配天数方面的种族差异。