A recent NPR article outlines four ways that racial inequity harms American schoolchildren.  They are:

Black students are more likely to be arrested at school. During the 2013-2014 school year, black students accounted for 16% of students enrolled in U.S. public schools, but 33% of arrests in those schools. Studies from the University of South Carolina also show that good, well-intentioned, and not overtly racist people tend to perceive black students to be more threatening.

Black students are more likely to be suspended. Between 2012 to 2016, black high school students were twice as likely to be suspended as white or Hispanic high school students. Students with disabilities were also twice as likely to be suspended as those without disabilities.

Implicit bias isn’t just a police problem, it happens in preschool, too. In 2016, the Yale Child Study Center that preschool teachers looked more for challenging behaviors at black children than white children, and they look specifically more at the African-American male.

White school districts receive more funding on average than nonwhite districts. According to a 2019 report from EdBuild predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more funding compared with school districts that serve mostly students of color.

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