From the article:
African-American students made up 36 percent of the enrollment and 7 percent of the children who received gifted education
So, what the article explictly states that 7 out of 36 African American students are 'gifted'
7/36 = 19.444%
Cow poop.
No, it doesn't. It says that 36% of the total enrollment is African-American. It further says that 7% of the enrollment in gifted programs is African-American.
What they are trying to get at is if AA representation in the total population is 36% then, all things being equal, one would expect that their representation in the gifted classes would be around 36%.
But all things aren't equal.
“From the article:
African-American students made up 36 percent of the enrollment and 7 percent of the children who received gifted education. So, what the article explictly states that 7 out of 36 African American students are ‘gifted’
7/36 = 19.444%”
Thats not correct. AAs are 38% of the students but receive only 7% of the gifted money. They want AAs to get 38% of the money since that is their proportion of the population.
For example: In a population of 100 students, 38 are black (38%). Of the 100 students, 10 are considered gifted, but only 1 is black. If the amount of money spent on gifted students is $100, only 10% is spent on blacks since that is their percent of the gifted. They see this as unfair since they are 38% of the total population.
Bottom line, they cant do math either.