troubling numbers...
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Here is the NY State report: http://blackboysreport.org/node/93
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Executive Summary


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For over five years, The Schott Foundation for Public Education has tracked
the performance of Black males in public education systems across the
nation.* Past efforts by Schott were designed to raise the nation's
consciousness about the critical education issues affecting Black males; low
graduation rates, high rates of placement in special education, and the
disproportionate use of suspensions and expulsions, to name a few.

The 2008 edition, Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public
Education and Black Males, details the drastic range of outcomes for Black
males, especially the tragic results in many of the nation's biggest cities.
Given Half a Chance also deliberately highlights the resource disparities
that exist in schools attended by Black males and their White, non-Hispanic
counterparts. The 2008 Schott report documents that states and most
districts with large Black enrollments educate their White, non-Hispanic
children, but do not similarly educate the majority of their Black male
students. Key examples:

*       More than half of Black males did not receive diplomas with their
cohort in 2005/2006.
*       The state of New York has 3 of the 10 districts with the lowest
graduation rates for Black males.
*       The one million Black male students enrolled in the New York,
Florida, and Georgia public schools are twice as likely not to graduate with
their class as to do so.
*       Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, South Carolina, and
Wisconsin graduated fewer Black males with their peer group than the
national average.
*       Illinois and Wisconsin have nearly 40-point gaps between how
effectively they educate their Black and White non-Hispanic male students.

These trends, and others cited in Given Half a Chance, are evidence of a
school-age population that is substantively denied an opportunity to learn,
and of a nation at risk.

* Black students are defined by the U.S. Department of Education as
"students having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa as
reported by their school." Data in the Report are based on information from
the U. S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics
and Office for Civil Rights, state departments of education and local school
districts.










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