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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): We turn to education and the impact tougher discipline policies are having on minority students. It turns out young black and Hispanic students are far more likely to receive tough school punishments, including suspensions, than white students.
Jeffrey Brown has more on the story.
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Those were some of the findings in a report released today by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.
Overall, the report found African-American students are three-and-a-half times more likely to be suspended or expelled than whites. And 70 percent of students arrested or referred to law enforcement for disciplinary problems are black or Latino.
The report also looked at disparities in educational opportunities.
Speaking today at Howard University in Washington, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, for example, that schools with a high number of black and Hispanics are less likely to offer calculus.
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