Published 07/11/11
On the eve of a meeting with school officials to discuss disparities in minority disciplinary rates, the Anne Arundel chapter of the NAACP has filed a formal civil rights complaint on the matter with the U.S. Department of Education.
The complaint, dated Thursday, cites county school statistics to bolster its claim that African-American students continue to be disciplined in numbers out of balance with their enrollment.
That, the NAACP chapter maintains, is a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and falls short of goals outlined in an 2005 agreement between county schools and civil rights advocates mediated by the Department of Justice Community Relations Services.
That agreement, a reaction to a 2004 complaint filed with the Department of
