Students With Disabilities are a Priority for Secretary of Education
The following are remarks given by U.S Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on March 8,2010, on the 45th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama. This speech is about comparing the past and present on terms of advancements in civil rights. For example, If Martin Luther king Jr. and other great people who fought for civil rights in our country were to see today's improvements in equality, how will they react? Looking at how things are today with some schools still very much segregated, Arne Duncan, feels like there is a bigger step to take in terms of helping to create a more equal society for the disable community and all of America. Bloody Sunday is symbolic, because it represents the great struggle for many people to ensure an equal opportunity tomorrow. However, reflecting on great inequalities still happening that need to be adressed, Arne Duncan feels there is still much work to be done...."Dr. King would have been angered to see that disadvantaged students still have less effective teachers; that they still have fewer opportunities to take rigorous college-prep courses in high school; that black, and brown, and low-income children are still languishing in aging facilities and high schools that are little more than dropout factories. He would have been downhearted that students with disabilities still do not get the educational support they need--and he would have been dismayed to learn of schools that seem to suspend and discipline only young African-American boys."
...The Office for Civil Rights at the department also plays a critical role in ensuring equity. It enforces laws that protect students from discrimination on
...The Office for Civil Rights at the department also plays a critical role in ensuring equity. It enforces laws that protect students from discrimination on
