2016年6月7日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Black Students Nearly 4 Times As Likely to Be Suspended

Posted: 07 Jun 2016 04:45 PM PDT

Black Students Nearly 4 Times As Likely to Be SuspendedBlack students are nearly four times as likely to be suspended as white students and nearly twice as likely to be expelled, according to data collected from public schools in the 2013–14 school year, released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights. Black students in grades K–12 were 2.3 times as likely to be arrested by school law enforcement officers than white students were.

School suspensions are declining, but racial disparities in discipline persist

Posted: 07 Jun 2016 06:28 AM PDT

Public schools across the country suspended nearly 20 percent fewer students in 2014 than they did in 2012, according to new federal data released Tuesday, a positive sign amid a mixed picture on how the nation's school serve students of color. Some 2.8 million students were suspended from public schools nationwide during the 2013-14 school year, a sign that efforts by the Obama administration to curb the use of suspensions, which activists say are linked to higher dropout rates and a greater likelihood of entering the criminal justice system, are working. Black students were nearly four times as likely to be suspended as white students, and twice as likely to be expelled.

Fred Sheheen, ex-higher education head, killed in crash

Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:56 PM PDT

CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) — Fred Sheheen, former commissioner of the state Commission on Higher Education and part of a long-standing South Carolina political family, has been killed in a car accident.

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