Protecting Against Preschool Expulsion: The Association between a Teacher’s Perception of the Parent-Teacher Relationship and a Child’s Risk for Expulsion

Preschool teachers’ perceptions of high-quality parent-teacher relationships are related to a lower risk for expulsion for children who have not been expelled, with the strongest association found for Black children. However, for preschool children who were previously expelled, we found no association between the parent-teacher relationship and future expulsion risk.