White Students
Special Education
Students With '504 Plans' More Likely to Be White, Enrolled in Non-Title I Schools
About 1 percent of all students nationwide receive accommodations under Section 504, which requires schools to make accommodations for disabilities such as mobility impairments, epilepsy or cerebral palsy.
College & Workforce Readiness
Latino College Enrollment Outpacing Whites, Report Finds
A record number of Hispanic high school graduates in 2012 went on to pursue higher education, outstripping enrollment of white graduates.
College & Workforce Readiness
Latino Applicants to California State University Outnumber Whites
For first time ever, the Latino applicant pool for CSU is bigger than any other racial or ethnic group in the state.
Education
Court Permits Suit Alleging Race Bias in White Student's Discipline
A federal appeals court has allowed most of a white high school student's lawsuit alleging racial bias in his discipline over an altercation with a black student to move forward.
Education
Whites Surpassed in UC Admissions
For the first time, more Asian-American than white students have been admitted to the University of California system.
Education
Report Roundup
African-Americans in W. Va. Rate Their Schools Lower Than Whites Do
African-American students attending middle or high school in West Virginia have a lower opinion of the quality of their schooling than white students, according to a survey of more than 2,931 students in the state.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Racism Explained to My White Daughter
In discussions about race, says education professor Patricia M. Cooper, we've got to be unsparingly honest about what's at stake for both parties.
Equity & Diversity
Black Students' Exposure To Whites Found Waning
Black students' exposure to white classmates has dwindled in many districts that have been released from court orders to desegregate over the past decade, Harvard University researchers say in a new report.
Equity & Diversity
Most Students Failing MCAS Are White, Mass. Says
Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.
School Choice & Charters
Milwaukee Fights Loss of White Students in Choice Plan
Milwaukee school officials are so certain that a decision to include white students from their city in the state's new open-enrollment program will amplify racial imbalances that they are fighting it in court.
Education
Pressure Spurs 2 Richmond Schools To Stop Clustering White Students
Two Richmond, Va., elementary schools have agreed to stop clustering white students in the same classrooms in response to complaints from parents and pressure from the district's central administration.
Education
Des Moines Board Refuses To Let White Students Transfer
In a move that has drawn fire from Gov. Terry E. Branstad and other Iowa officials, the Des Moines school board has refused to allow about 120 white students to transfer out of the district under the state's open-enrollment law.
Education
White Students Twice as Likely As Blacks To Smoke, Study Finds
White high-school students are more than twice as likely as black
students to smoke, a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
concludes.
Education
Black Seniors Less Likely Than Whites To Use Drugs, National Study Suggests
The national study also found that Native American students have the highest drug-and alcohol-usage rates, and that Asian-American students are the least likely to use drugs. Drug-use rates of white, black, and Hispanic seniors generally fall in the middle range, the study found.