Patchy data clouds view of civil rights in schools
BY MOLLY DAVIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Researchers have long found differences in how schools and juvenile facilities discipline minority and white students, but inconsistent data collection has made analysis difficult.
An increase in civil rights complaints arising from disciplinary actions has caught the eye of the U.S. Department of Education. Currently, eight of the agency's 13 civil rights investigations on discipline are in Southern states. Some investigations are based on formal complaints, but others are initiated by the department to determine if a district is complying with civil rights law.
In St. James Parish, La., the DOE followed up on a complaint and found that when black students broke
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