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- 内容摘要
- 联邦数据显示学校纪律存在种族差距
- 特朗普政府已针对多元化举措采取行动
- 教育部称反对“种族平衡”
华盛顿8月19日路透电 —— 美国教育部发布指导意见，敦促学校停止其所谓的学生纪律政策中的“种族平衡”做法，这引发了人们担忧：特朗普政府正加大解决长期存在的学校纪律种族差距的难度。
联邦民权数据显示，黑人学生受到纪律处分的比例高得不成比例。教育部2023年发布的一份报告发现，公立学前黑人儿童被停学的比例几乎是其入学比例的两倍。
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这份新指导意见称，学校不得仅仅为了缩小这类种族差距而修改纪律政策。
美国教育部民权办公室在一份信函中表示，学校“出于避免或减少纪律处分种族差距的目的而改变纪律政策，构成了种族歧视”。
该办公室表示，学校必须确保学生不会因种族受到不同对待，而“种族平衡”属于歧视行为。
此次发布指导意见之前，教育部于上月取消了多项“差别影响”监管规定。这些规定数十年来一直禁止那些往往出于无意但具有歧视性影响的政策和做法。
唐纳德·特朗普总统已针对多元化举措采取行动，他称这些举措对白人和男性存在歧视。民权倡导者表示，特朗普政府取消旨在帮助边缘化群体的举措，正在逆转社会进步。
教育公平倡导组织EdTrust负责K-12政策的主管埃里克·邓肯批评了这份最新指导意见。
他说：“你无法通过告诉学校无视种族差异来解决学校纪律中的种族差距问题。黑人学生长期以来一直在我国学校面临最严苛的纪律处分。”
2023年报告的数据还显示，在K-12公立学校中，黑人男孩被停学或开除的概率几乎是白人男孩的两倍；而黑人女孩收到一次或多次校内停学、一次或多次校外停学以及被开除的概率，也几乎是白人女孩的两倍。
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US tells schools not to alter discipline policies to reduce racial disparities
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- Summary
- Federal data show racial disparities in school discipline
- Trump has acted against diversity practices
- Education Department says it opposes ‘racial balancing’
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls “racial balancing” in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump administration is making it harder to address longstanding racial disparities in school discipline.
Federal civil rights data has shown Black students are disciplined at disproportionately high rates. An Education Department
report, opens new tab released in 2023 found Black public preschool children received out-of-school suspensions at a rate nearly twice their enrollment.
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The new guidance says schools cannot modify discipline policies simply to reduce such racial disparities.
A school’s decision “to change its discipline policies with the purpose of avoiding or reducing racial disparities in discipline constitutes race discrimination,” the Education Department’s office for civil rights
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It said schools must ensure students are not treated differently because of race and that “racial balancing” constitutes discrimination.
The guidance follows the department’s decision last month to remove several “disparate impact” regulations that for decades have prohibited policies and practices with discriminatory effects that are often unintended.
President Donald Trump has acted against diversity initiatives, which he calls discriminatory against white people and males. Civil rights advocates say Trump’s actions are rolling back social progress by removing practices aimed at helping marginalized groups.
Eric Duncan, education equity advocacy group EdTrust’s director of P-12 policy, criticized the latest guidance.
“You cannot address racial disparities in school discipline by telling schools to ignore race,” he said. “Black students have long faced some of the harshest discipline in our nation’s schools.”
Data from the 2023 report also showed that Black boys were nearly twice as likely as white boys to receive an out-of-school suspension or expulsion in K-12 public schools while Black girls were nearly twice as likely to receive one or more in-school suspensions, one or more out-of-school suspensions, and expulsions than white girls.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani
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Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.
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