{"id":379511,"date":"2018-10-03T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/racial-disparities-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:56:16","slug":"racial-disparities-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/racial-disparities-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Disparities – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Barack Obama\u2019s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across the nation, the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Secretary Duncan titled his speech \u201cCrossing the Next Bridge.\u201d Duncan told the crowd that black students \u201care more than three times as likely to be expelled as their white peers,\u201d adding that Martin Luther King would be \u201cdismayed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and her special assistant and counselor, Alison Somin, have written an important article in the Texas Review of Law & Politics, titled \u201cThe Department of Education\u2019s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline\u201d (Spring 2018). The article is about the departments of Education and Justice\u2019s \u201cdisparate impact\u201d vision, wherein they see racial discrimination as the factor that explains why black male students face suspension and expulsion more often than other students.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Faced with threats from the Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights, schools have instituted new disciplinary policies. For example, after the public school district in Oklahoma City was investigated by the OCR, there was a 42.5 percent decrease in the number of suspensions. According to an article in The Oklahoman, one teacher said, \u201cStudents are yelling, cursing, hitting and screaming at…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Barack Obama\u2019s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}