The data, released today by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder
, includes information from every public school in the country.The data shows the following:
- Schools serving the highest percentage of African American and Latino students, one in three does not offer a single course in chemistry; one in four doesn’t offer a math course higher than Algebra 1.
- Black students are suspended and expelled from school at a rate nearly three times that of whites (16 vs. 5%)
- Black preschoolers represent nearly half of all preschoolers that receive more than one suspension.
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