{"id":929,"date":"2012-10-02T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=929"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:12:13","slug":"las-angles-times-oakland-schools-to-let-feds-monitor-discipline-of-black-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/10\/02\/las-angles-times-oakland-schools-to-let-feds-monitor-discipline-of-black-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times: Oakland schools to let feds monitor discipline of black students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/10\/US-DeptOfEducation-Seal2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-934\" title=\"US-DeptOfEducation-Seal\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/10\/US-DeptOfEducation-Seal2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Stephen Ceasar<\/div>\n<div>October 1, 2012<\/div>\n<p>The Oakland Unified School District and the <a id=\"ORGOV000094\" title=\"U.S. Department of Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/u.s.-department-of-education-ORGOV000094.topic\">U.S. Department of Education<\/a> reached an agreement last week that would allow federal officials to monitor the district&#8217;s efforts to curb the number of out-of-school suspensions of its African American students.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which the Oakland school board passed unanimously, closes an investigation by the Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights into whether African American students were disciplined more frequently and harshly than their white classmates. The agreement was reached Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last school year, African American students made up about 39% of the district&#8217;s total enrollment but accounted for 63% of students with at least one suspension and 61% of those who were expelled, said Russlynn Ali, the department&#8217;s assistant secretary for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-oakland-schools-20121001,0,7898854.story\">read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Ceasar October 1, 2012 The Oakland Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Education reached an agreement last week that would allow federal officials to monitor the district&#8217;s efforts to curb the number of out-of-school suspensions of its African American students. The resolution, which the Oakland school board passed unanimously, closes an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/10\/02\/las-angles-times-oakland-schools-to-let-feds-monitor-discipline-of-black-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Angeles Times: Oakland schools to let feds monitor discipline of black students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[77,80,95,99,111,157],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_national_ag","tag-kqed","tag-kqed-american-graduate","tag-kqed_research_national_ag","tag-oakland","tag-ousd","tag-u-s-department-of-education"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}