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Editors' note: this piece has been adapted from the summer issue of City Journal.
In March 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that his department was “going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement” in the nation’s schools. What was the pervasive racial injustice that led Mr. Duncan to redouble such efforts? Black elementary and high school students are three and a half times more likely to get suspended or expelled than their white peers, according to federal data.
And so the Departments of Education and Justice have launched a campaign against disproportionate minority discipline rates, which show up in...
Obama Administration Hunts Phantom Classroom Racism