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Thursday, March 8, 2012

U.S. Department of Education – YOU ARE CLUELESS! « Teachers Fight Back

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U.S. Department of Education – YOU ARE CLUELESS!

The U.S. Department of Education released a study that showed African-American students in Chicago Public Schools face harsher discipline than their white and Latino classmates. African-American students comprised three-quarters of school suspensions in 2009-10, the year data was collected for the national civil rights survey. African-American students make up about half of the students in Chicago Public Schools. Latino students made up 42 percent of CPS’ enrollment but 20 percent of the suspensions. White students, who represented less than 10 percent of district enrollment, made up 3 percent of suspensions.
The study went on to hint that the teachers were at fault for the fact that African-American suspensions were disproportionately high. U.S. Dept. of Education, YOU ARE CLUELESS! How dare you suggest that teachers