Race to the Bottom: Minority Children and Special Education in Arizona Public Schools

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 . . .