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Essay / Addressing racial inequality in today's education system
They make up only about 25% in Advanced Placement classes, compared to 81% of white students and 87% of Asian Americans. They have been better prepared for college admission, but for minorities there have been inequities in the public school system. Rich, talks about a 37-page document released by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and "the administration urges state officials, superintendents and principals to monitor policies and facilities for s ensure that they are fairly distributed among all students. “races” (Rich). This way, students can have equal access to the programs that schools can offer. Motoko Rich continues to make more references to the Ministry of Education. And they collected data that indicates the gaps indicate continued inequality for minorities in the public school system. One point made by the Department of Education is that black and Hispanic students are less likely to have teachers who don't meet all the requirements the state must meet. There are schools with high minority groups and they are more likely to have portable teachers. buildings, only those which have a large number of