By Carla Balvaneda For centuries, students of color across the country have been disproportionately placed in underperforming schools and subjected to exclusionary discipline practices, often as result of the criminalization of their low-socioeconomic status and racial or ethnic identities. There is a common misconception that education serves as an equalizer, atoning for social policy failures: income inequality, housing segregation, the list goes on. However, without addres