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Civil Rights study finds racial disparities still prevalent in schools

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released data showing the disparity in educational resources and attainment for minority students. The National Education Access Network highlighted some key findings from the OCR’s Civil Rights Data Collection study:

"Only 29% of high-minority schools offered calculus courses, though 55% of schools with the lowest Black and Hispanic enrollment offered calculus.

Teachers in high-minority schools were paid, on average, $2,251 less per year than their peers teaching in low-minority schools in the same district.

While Black students make up only 18% of students surveyed, Black students account for 35% of students suspended more than once and 39% of school expulsions.

56% of all 4th graders retained at the end of the 2009-2010 school year were Black.

Taken together, Black and Hispanic students represented more than 70% of total cases referred to law enforcement."

The OCR will soon be releasing the results from their longitudinal study, chronicling the changes in the data set over time.

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