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San Diego Blueprint Mirrors Obama Initiative To Improve African American Education

contagious, it would seem.

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans aims to get more African-American kids into pre-Kindergarten programs and have fewer unnecessarily referred to special education services. It will also look to even out the use of harsh disciplinary measures suspension and expulsion and ensure access to college and career-track classes.

While African-American students across the country and in San Diego have made gains in areas like preschool attendance and standardized test scores, they still lag their Caucasian classmates.

And federal data released earlier this year showed that black and Hispanic students were more likley than their white counterparts to be suspended or expelled.

and...?

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jul/30...tiative-impro/