The Obama administration is no stranger to trying to micromanage complex, intractable problems from Washington. But using the Civil Rights Act to direct schools’ disciplinary practices might be its most foolhardy idea yet. Beginning in 2010, the Department of Education, led by the occasionally sensible Arne Duncan, announced that it intended to pursue vigorously civil-rights violations in the American school system. That’s led to a number of DOE investigations of various school districts with racially disparate discipline rates.
This, of course, is not surprising: Black and Hispanic students are much more likely to be low achievers, coming from poor homes, often headed by a single parent. The discipline disparities produced by these tragic circumstances are so widespread that the Departments of Justice and Education have now issued a set of national guidelines for school discipline, summarizing “schools’ obligations to avoid and redress racial discrimination in the administration of school discipline” and explaining the departments’ ability to launch civil-rights investigations if they believe schools have failed in their duties.
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WTF , tired of the crap , we have a society that should consist of low income , middle income and of course high income.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has the chance to succeed .
We will never be equal in our accomplishments. Some have it , some don't.
If I'm a minority and I do bad things then I should be punished , If I'm not a minority I should be punished.
Get over this type of crap for political purpose , I've seen it in schools , blacks are taught to rebel , I don't know about Hispanics , they are learning the tricks.