Carrol
Michael Hoover wrote ( Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:23:19 -0500 (EST):
> below supports view that so-called 'drop-out' is 'push-out' for some...
> Michael Hoover
>
> > Published Wednesday, March 1, 2000, in the Miami Herald
> >
> > Schools fail racial equity, report states
> >
> > BY ROBERT SANCHEZ
> > rsanchez at herald.com
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > ``If racial equity were a required course,'' the strongly
> > worded report from the Applied Research
> > Center begins, ``most U.S. public school systems
> > would receive a failing grade.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > The report cites the relatively large numbers of
> > African Americans suspended or expelled for
> > disciplinary reasons under policies of ``zero
> > tolerance'' for drugs, weapons and violence -- and the
> > relatively low participation by African American and
> > Latino students in most advanced and gifted
> > programs. . . .