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The Craig Fahle Show

Title VI Enforcement Study and Civil Rights in Education

Tuesday August 21, 2012

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights recently released a study which shows continuing disparities between educational opportunities for White students and students of color. Among other things, the Title VI Enforcement study shows that schools serving mostly African-American and Hispanic students are twice as likely to hire teachers that are new to the profession, African-American students are over three and half times more likely and Hispanic students are over one and a half times more likely to be suspended or expelled than White students and elementary school teachers who serve primarily African-American and Hispanic students are paid on average $2,200 less per year that their colleagues who serve mostly White students. Craig is joined by Ethriam Brammer, Associate Director of the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Wayne State University, and Sandra Gonzales, Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education at Wayne State University, to discuss the impact of the study and the civil rights in public education work they are currently working on in Southwest Detroit.

Photos courtesy of politicspa.com

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