Why Tracking Racial Disparities in Special Education Still Matters - Atlanta Tribune
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This story originally appeared on WordInBlack.com. Classrooms should be places of opportunity, not obstacles. But for many students with disabilities, especially students of color and English learners, school often reinforces the inequities it’s supposed to erase. Black students, for example, have been overrepresented in special education since 1968, when the U.S. Office for Civil Rights first began […]

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This story originally appeared on WordInBlack.com. Classrooms should be places of opportunity, not obstacles. But for many students with disabilities, especially students of color and English learners, school often reinforces the inequities it’s supposed to erase. Black students, for example, have been overrepresented in special education since 1968, when the U.S. Office for Civil Rights first began […]The post Why Tracking Racial Disparities in Special Education Still Matters appeared first on Atlanta Tribune.

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