Board of Education.”īefore integration was law, Black schools served multiple functions in their communities. “When the Black community started to build their own schools and develop their own systems, that was essentially and literally destroyed through Brown v.

school system was never designed for us,” said Kenneth Eban, director of policy and advocacy for the Advancing Equity Coalition in Minneapolis. Department of Education now has a guidebook and sometimes conducts its own investigations into school districts, no official compliance policy has ever been implemented. It asked the federal government to set up a compliance policy to hold schools accountable for “widespread and systematic” discrimination. It noted how vague codes of conduct leave room for teachers to assert biases, how exclusionary discipline harms students, and how this kind of discrimination can push a child into juvenile deliquency. It pointed directly to the school-to-prison pipeline before the term was coined. The first national study on school suspensions by the Children’s Defense Fund in 1975 attributed this statistic to racism among white teachers, specifically in the South. In a 2019 study by Princeton University, researchers found that Black students were three times more likely to be suspended than white students.įorty-five years ago, this rate was the same. What they don’t mention is what the nation lost after Brown versus Board of Education, and how it laid the groundwork for the school-to-prison pipeline. The 1954 decision desegregated schools and united Black and white students under one roof. Board of Education is taught as a major victory for reaching equality in education. In most schools, the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v.

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