Black and Latino male youth more likely to be on special ed 'road to nowhere': Black and Latino boys with disabilities are more likely to land in special ed classes where dropout rates are high and chances of graduating are slim, a new report showed.
Kids with disabilities in 'self-contained' city classrooms - where all kids are in special education - had less than a 5% chance of graduating last year.
They're twice as likely to drop out as kids in other kinds of special ed settings, the advocacy group ARISE Coalition said.
'It's a road to nowhere for many of those kids,' ARISE Coordinator Maggie Moroff said.
In middle school, African-American and Hispanic males made up about 60% of the kids in self-contained classes, compared with about 50% in mixed classrooms of special ed and general ed students.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said an increasing number of special ed students perform at or above grade level and are 'more likely to graduate high school than at any previous time.'
