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- Title
URBAN YOUTH IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES Segregation Based on Disability and Race.
- Authors
Ochoa, Theresa A.; Eckes, Suzanne E.
- Abstract
Research indicates that a disproportionate number of minority students are assigned to special education programs in urban school districts. Oftentimes, these programs are inadequate and they deny minority students with special needs a free appropriate public education. These concerns are not only applicable to urban public schools; research also suggests similar problems for youth in correctional facilities. In this article, the authors explore the following issues: segregation and disability in youth correctional facilities and the legal issues involved; the barriers of providing a free appropriate public education in youth correctional facilities; and excerpts from interviews with an incarcerated female with disabilities and one of her teachers regarding her education in an urban juvenile correctional facility.
- Subjects
MINORITY students; EDUCATION policy; SPECIAL education; URBAN schools; SCHOOL districts; PUBLIC schools
- Publication
Education & Urban Society, 2005, Vol 38, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0013-1245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0013124505280750