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One front on which the fight for racial jus­tice is being waged is in the area of edu­ca­tion. We have been led to believe that edu­ca­tion is the great equal­iz­er in this coun­try, but the real­i­ty is that Black and Brown stu­dents have dis­parate expe­ri­ences in school. For exam­ple, a nation­al study from the Cen­ter for Civ­il Rights Reme­dies, issued in 2020, showed that African Amer­i­can stu­dents were more than four times as like­ly to be sus­pend­ed from school and lost five times as many days of instruc­tion due to dis­ci­pli­nary push-out. How do we stop this, and where is the account­abil­i­ty? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Liz King, the Direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion at the Lead­er­ship Coun­cil on Civ­il and Human Rights about efforts to fight dis­crim­i­na­tion in our nation’s pub­lic schools. She makes the case for dou­bling the Depart­ment of Education’s bud­get of the Office for Civ­il Rights, a pri­ma­ry agent in hold­ing school sys­tems account­able for injus­tices inflict­ed upon stu­dents on the basis of race, gen­der, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, reli­gion, etc. She revis­its the dam­age done to pub­lic edu­ca­tion dur­ing the DeVos era, and offers some solu­tions to help pro­tect stu­dents against dis­crim­i­na­tion in schools.