African American students in large school systems are arrested far more often on campus than their white peers, new federal data show. The data, from an Education Department civil rights survey released Tuesday, provide the government’s most extensive examination yet of how public schools across the country bring police into the handling of student offenses.
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Is it possible that perhaps black students are involved in a disproportionate amount of crime? If this is the case, and I'm not sure it is, then this would be a different problem than discrimination in school.
Is it possible that white people are prejudiced?
Gee, no data on severity of incidents or number of incidents per student before they were arrested. Think this study was conducted in such a way as to incite calls of racism, because it does not contain needed facts. Very irresponsible research.