The nonprofit Public Citizens for Children and Youth has used publicly available data supplied by schools and law enforcement agencies to assess racial equity in Philadelphia's suburban districts.
None got a passing grade.
School districts are failing to properly educate Black and Hispanic students, and often discipline minority students more harshly as compared to white children and teens, the report found.
Black students, on average, score 22% lower in reading and 27% lower in math assessments in the Philadelphia suburbs. Hispanic students, on average, score 16% lower in reading and 19% lower in math assessments in those schools.
Students in Pennsylvania are among the most likely in the nation to be arrested, and educators are more likely to involve police when the student is Black or brown, according to an analysis of more than 2,400 law enforcement related incidents clocked by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
The report found that in 92% of the suburban districts, fewer Black and Hispanic students are enrolled in AP classes than one would expect, and fewer Black and Hispanic students access career and technical education programs.
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Council Rock School District will be working with the Delaware Valley Consortium for Equity and Excellence, which is an organization affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, to do a “diversity audit” and teacher training.
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