Chelsie Acosta: Making Black lives matter in education

Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIYOC) are policed and surveilled every day in classrooms across the U.S. by those entrusted with their care and education, teachers.Utah statistics show BIYOC are suspended and referred to the juvenile justice system at a disproportionately higher rate than whites.A 2017 report issued by Voices for Utah Children and the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law found that Black students are 4.1 times more likely to be suspended, followed by Indige