'Black Minds Matter:' Report shows black students face racial inequities in California schools

[KamaAina]

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29032275/black-minds-matter:-report-shows-black-students-face-racial-inequities-in-california-schools

Now that the phrase "Black Lives Matter" has become a familiar part of the daily lexicon, a local educational advocacy group is using it -- albeit with a twist -- in its own fight to ameliorate the stark racial inequities that California's black students face in the classroom.

On Wednesday, the advocacy group Oakland-based Education Trust-West released its report, "Black Minds Matter," which uses statewide and nationwide data to show that the state's more than 900,000 black students under age 25 face steep odds to survive the educational system, regardless of income level.

According to the report, African-American students are least likely to: become proficient readers by third grade; be placed in gifted and talented programs; master midlevel math skills; be placed in a full sequence of college-preparatory classes; complete an Advanced Placement (AP) course; and graduate from high school and college.

They also face a far higher chance of feeling unsafe in their classrooms, being suspended or expelled, taught by ineffective teachers, and be placed in special education classes and remedial classes in college, the study shows.

[marym625]

1. it has to end

For Christ's sake we're over a half century away from Brown. And here we still are