The Obama Administration's Conspiracy Theory On Black Students And School Discipline
03/06/2012
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From the NYT: 
Black Students Face More Discipline, Data Suggests 
By TAMAR LEWIN 
Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the Department of Education. 
Although black students made up only 18 percent of those enrolled in the schools sampled, they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once, 46 percent of those suspended more than once and 39 percent of all expulsions, according to the Civil Rights Data Collection’s 2009-10 statistics from 72,000 schools in 7,000 districts, serving about 85 percent of the nation’s students. ... Over all, black students were three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers.... 
“Education is the civil rights of our generation,” said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in a telephone briefing with reporters on Monday. “The undeniable truth is that the everyday education experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise.”
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