The Equity Center at Indiana University is a consortium of privately and publicly funded projects dedicated to providing support and technical assistance to educational agencies and other stakeholders seeking to create equitable school systems. Specifically, its mission is to disseminate research and analysis focused on issues of school discipline, school violence, special education and equality of educational opportunity for all students. This grant to the Equity Center at Indiana University will support the Race and Gender Disparities Research and Practice Collaborative project. The project will bring together researchers, advocates, educators, parents, students and policymakers in order to develop and recommend policies that will lead to changes in practice and policy surrounding issues of equity in school discipline, particularly as they pertain to African American males and LGBTQ students.