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Article: Special education study finds racial disparity
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- July 31, 2002
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Special education study finds racial disparity
By AMY HETZNER of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Black students are more likely -- sometimes more than twice as
likely -- to be in special education as white students in Wisconsin,
according to a new study that questions how schools identify disabled
children.
In the Elmbrook School District, the 88 black students labeled as
disabled in 2000-'01 amounted to more than one-quarter of the
district's black public school population, making them 2 1/2 times as
likely to be in special education as their white peers.
That disparity was the highest among the state's 25 largest school
districts studied by the Wisconsin Policy Research ...