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Special Education Means No Education For Many Youth Of Color by Ernest Saadiq Morris, Urban Youth Justice

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Is Special Education the Ed Reform-era dumping ground for Black Youth? "Special education warehousing of Black youth and other youth of color is rampant in too many urban school districts. Special education warehousing is the disproportionate removal of youth of color from general education classrooms through referrals to special education classrooms that segregate them from the student population...This practice is similar to the post-Brown v. Board era practice of discriminatory labeling of Black and Latino students as mildly retarded in order to dump them in segregated classrooms -- in an attempt to avoid the legally required integration of public schools."
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I am a youth rights advocate, civil rights and liberties lawyer, and founding director of the public education and advocacy initiative, Urban Youth Justice (www.UrbanYouthJustice.org). I advocate for the equal rights, equal justice and equal (more...)
 
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