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September 2004
 Race to the Bottom:
Minority Children and Special Education in Arizona Public
Schools
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Goldwater Institute
In the year 2000, the
United States Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights
(OCR) surveyed all of the nation's
public schools concerning their special education students. The
resulting data known as the OCR
2000 Elementary and
Secondary School Survey allow
for the exploration of the possible existence of racial bias in
the assignment of special
education labeling. Specifically, the OCR data contain information
not only about the race of disabled
students, but also about the type of disability labels they carry
at the individual school level.
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