School Data Finds Pattern of Inequality Along Racial Lines

New York Times ^ | March 21, 2014 | MOTOKO RICH

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Racial minorities are more likely than white students to be suspended from school, to have less access to rigorous math and science classes, and to be taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience, according to comprehensive data released Friday by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

In the first analysis in nearly 15 years of information from all of the country’s 97,000 public schools, the Education Department found a pattern of inequality on a number of fronts, with race as the dividing factor.

Black students are suspended and expelled at three times the rate of white students. A quarter of high schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students do not offer any Algebra II courses, while a third of those schools do not have any chemistry classes. Black students are more than four times as likely as white students — and Latino students are twice as likely — to attend schools where one out of every five teachers does not meet all state teaching requirements.

“Here we are, 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the data altogether still show a picture of gross inequity in educational opportunity,” said Daniel J. Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California at Los Angeles’s Civil Rights Project.

In his budget request to Congress, President Obama has proposed a new phase of his administration’s Race to the Top competitive grant program, which would give $300 million in incentives to states and districts that put in place programs intended to close some of the educational gaps identified in the data.

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One of the striking statistics to emerge from the data, based on information collected during the 2011-12 academic year, was that even as early as preschool, black students face harsher

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s tied to God.
We would have mercy, but we wouldn’t excuse.

[cuban leaf]

I agree. The problem is that the kids come from “father free” zones. Their race is just a peripheral factoid.

[ronnie raygun]

Look lets get this over with, give them high school diplomas just like Gov cuomo will give to inmates who sign up for a college associates degree that will cost only 5000 dollars per inmate. As far as suspensions I believe if they suspend 50 black kids suspend 50 white kids and 50 asian kids this way it’s fair and all is happy. It’s not about disruption and the misbehaved it’s about being fair. If leon killed a person and went to jail we must also send joey and lu for the same crime even though they didnt committ a crime, see how easy it is.....

[FredZarguna]

Black kids can learn just as well as white kids, all other things being equal.

On average, all other things are not equal. They never are, and they never can be.

The only equality we should expect, demand, and guarantee is equality before the law. The liberal demand of equality of outcomes is arrant nonsense, and will only ever lead to more propaganda about "racism," calls for more money, more affirmative action, more racial quotas and set-asides ... and more failure.

The same problems are showing up in poor white families as well, but somehow, no polls are ever done about them.

The same problems show up in poor white families for the same reason. Ask any social worker who is honest and he/she will tell you the same thing: Most poor people fall into three categories. 1) Temporary poor people 2) Transiently poor people and 3) Permanently poor people.

Temporary poor people are people who have had some kind of catastrophic set-back: death in the family or a health crisis, national economic collapse without savings or any contingency plan. As the name suggests, they do not stay poor very long.

Transient poor people are usually immigrants who don't speak the language. Within a few generations they usually aren't poor any more. This label also usually applies to the children of people who aren't motivated to work; most of them reject their parents' life choices and don't remain poor.

Permanently poor people. Permanently poor people have one thing in common regardless of race or national origin: they're stupid. That's the harsh reality.

They're stupid.