The Urgency of Now: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males

This report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, an Atlantic grantee, finds that only 52 percent of Black male and 58 per cent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 per cent of White, non-Latino male ninth-graders graduate four years later.

Citing the need to address students being pushed out and locked out of opportunities to learn, the Schott Foundation has joined the call for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions. The report suggests that without a policy framework that creates opportunity for all students, strengthens supports for the teaching profession and strikes the right balance between support-based reforms and standards-driven reforms, the U.S. will become increasingly unequal and less competitive in the global economy.

More information about the report and detailed state-specific data can be found here: www.blackboysreport.org.

Schott Foundation for Public Education is an Atlantic grantee.