At a press conference today in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made the following statement about the classroom arrest at Richland County's Spring Valley High School in South Carolina:
"Before I take your questions, I want to do a quick statement about an important conversation that's happening across America right now. This city was the site of so many important moments in the struggle for civil rights. But this week, we've been forced to again confront how far we still have left to go in the struggle for true equality. There's an important discussion taking place in America this week about school discipline, and the role of law enforcement in our schools, and the well-being of our nation's children. Our partners at the Department of Justice have opened an investigation into what happened recently in South Carolina, so I'm not going to be able to comment on the specifics there.
Read the press release here.
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- Violent SC Arrest Reflects How African-American Girls Are Disproportionately Disciplined in Schools, Study Author Says (ABC News)
- Study: Black Girls Are Being Pushed Out of School (NPR)
- The Assault At Spring Valley High Shows The School-To-Prison Pipeline In Action (The Huffington Post)
- She was guilty of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American schools (Salon)
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