Disrupting Disproportionality Through DisCrit: Implications for School Psychologists as Systems Leaders for Racial Equity

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Abstract

Education systems continue to perpetuate inequities on the basis of race, as well as marginalization based on the notion of difference as a disability–it is exemplified in the phenomenon of racial disproportionality in special education. This paper analyzes the intersections of the role of the school psychologist in this phenomenon from a Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) lens, in order to re-envision the practice and to prepare school psychologists as systems leaders in disrupting modern day segregation.

Author

• Melissa Itzel Virrueta-Peters, University of California - Berkeley