Persistent racial gaps shown in education data
Black, Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended, less likely to be in gifted programs.
They knew when they opened a new portal to civil rights education data that they were opening a volatile box.
The U.S. Department of Education’s statistics on school experiences divided by race and ethnic groups expose communities anew to hard-to-explain disparities.
The Star examined much of the data for Kansas City area districts on both sides of the state line and found gaps as large as or larger than trends seen across the nation.
With few exceptions, black and Hispanic students in area schools are far less likely than white students to be enrolled in gifted programs or accelerated into early algebra classes.
Furthermore, black and Hispanic students are more likely to be held back a grade, and black students in particular
