Explore Racial Disparities in Hundreds of Illinois Schools and Districts

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This week, ProPublica launched "Miseducation" an interactive database where you can search, examine and compare racial disparities in thousands of schools and school districts in the United States. The tool, based on data from the civil rights data collection program of the US Department of Education. UU., Measures these disparities in four ways: enrollment in advanced classes, student discipline, gaps in academic achievement, and level of segregation at the district and state levels.

Since I helped build the tool and live here in Illinois, I'm going to draw some important conclusions from our state data and explain how you can use it to find information that is important to you. And, please, let us know what you find out about your school district's data. Does it match your experience? Do you know more about the factors that could explain what you see? Send us an email or tweet to us.

1. At the national level, black students are more likely to be disciplined than children of other races. Illinois follows this pattern.

In most parts of the country, black students have excessive representation in the discipline (defined as an out-of-school suspension). That also applies to Illinois, as you can see in this page.

In 312 of the 326 Illinois school districts where disparities could be calculated, black students were at least twice as likely to be disciplined as whites. In 59 districts, black students were more than 10 times more likely to be disciplined. In only five districts that together accounted for less than 1,200 students, the discipline rates for black students were equivalent to or less than white students.

In particular, it is worth paying attention to the discipline because it is a clear metric. The researchers found that when Chicago cut the discipline, attendance increased and test performance improved among the black students. Disparities in discipline often have a significant effect on educational achievement and outcomes.

2. Hispanic students in Illinois are underrepresented in Advanced Placement classes, except in Chicago.

In Public Schools of Chicago, 46 percent of Hispanic students enrolled in Advanced Placement classes, who can award college credit to students. That is the same percentage for Hispanic students throughout the school district. Outside of Chicago, it's a different story. Many districts with Hispanic students see a much smaller proportion of students enrolled in advanced classes.

Take suburban Barrington Community School District, which serves one of the richest areas of the country. At Barrington, Hispanic students make up 18 percent of the population, but they account for 5 percent of all students who take at least one AP class. Hispanic students have, on average, at least three grade levels behind their white counterparts and 2.3 times more likely to be suspended.

3. Disparities in performance and discipline within individual schools are low in Chicago, but high throughout the district. Why? Segregation.

If you explore individual Chicago schools in the application, you will see that most schools are largely composed of one race. Drink Phillips Academy High School, in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Our application shows that Phillips is 97 percent black. As expected, all students taking Advanced Placement classes at Phillips are black. In this way, Phillips is not so different from Juarez Community Academy. Juarez is 94 percent Hispanic, and Hispanic students represent 93 percent of AP class enrollment.

In Chicago, the disparities are Between schools That's partly because Chicago It has one of the most segregated school systems. in the country. Juarez Community Academy suspends 9 percent of all students, while Phillips suspends 39 percent.

To understand these disparities, we must see it on a larger scale: the district. At the district level, disparities throughout the system are focused.

We want you ... to use our application!

Our "Miseducation" tool includes nearly 100,000 schools and more than 17,000 districts nationwide, and 4,081 schools and 935 districts in Illinois. There is much more to learn about the racial disparities in Illinois education, in addition to the three conclusions I mentioned. That's why we hope you use the application to explore the schools in your community and tell us what you find. In the coming weeks, we will add even more Illinois-specific school data to provide a deeper insight into the schools here. So keep checking.

Again, tell us: Do the data collected by the Department of Education fit your experience? What else should we know about the factors that could explain what he sees? Do you know the Illinois education data and have ideas about what we could show that would be meaningful and impactful? Let us know!

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