Racial Inequities at Allegheny County Public Schools

The United States has a long history of racial discrimination in education. Black and White students were taught at separate schools where Black schools were funded at dramatically lower rates than White schools. Legal segregation did not end until 1964 however, we still see segregation happening in schools to this day through redlining.

American Public Schools are divided along economic and racial lines. According to a study, 78% of public school children attend their assigned public schools which are assigned by the student's address, therefore, the public schools are segregated through the red lines drawn between neighborhoods. Black students are denied access to good schools because they don't live in that school neighborhood.

Often students in predominantly Black schools are over criminalized in comparison to their peers at predominantly White schools. Furthermore, Black students have higher arrest rates, out of school suspension rates and expulsion rates.

There are higher arrest numbers at predominantly Black Schools than predominantly White Schools

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