Academically challenging classes, experienced teachers and moderate disciplinary policies are housed in affluent white school districts, leaving minorities on the fringe, according to a U.S. Department of Education survey.
“In general, the data shows students of color, students whose first language is not English and students with disabilities are, according to a number of indicators, not getting the same opportunities to learn as their classmates who are white, first language is English or who do not have disabilities,” U.S. Secretary of Education John King Jr. said of the findings. “These statistics are not just numbers. They represent the educational experiences of real students, whose lives are affected in profound ways by what goes on in their schools.”
The Department of Education released the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) survey from 95,000 schools, nearly every public school in the nation, which hosts around 50 million students.
