Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Education Secretary Bluntly Addresses Racial Disparities

By Autumn A. Arnett, Diverse Issues in Higher Education

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in a speech before an audience Wednesday at the National Press Club, announced a new policy to reallocate state correctional funding dollars to raises for teachers in the nation’s most underprivileged districts.

In what were perhaps his most intentional comments to date on race, Duncan addressed the disparities in educational access and correctional patterns within a decidedly racial framework.

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