{"product_id":"2940149019441","title":"Racial Harassment in Vermont Public Schools: A Progress Report:","description":"In its February1999 report, Racial Harassment in Vermont Public Schools (the 1999 Report), the \u003cbr\u003eVermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (the Committee) concluded \u003cbr\u003ethat “racial harassment appears pervasive in and around the state’s public schools,” observing that \u003cbr\u003e“the elimination of this harassment is not a priority among school administrators, school boards, \u003cbr\u003eelected officials, and state agencies charged with civil rights enforcement.”\u003cbr\u003e1\u003cbr\u003eWhen the 1999 Report was released, there was little comprehensive data with which to assess \u003cbr\u003ethe extent of racial harassment in Vermont. But since then, several sources have become available \u003cbr\u003eindicating how serious the problem is. \u003cbr\u003e1.  Partly in response to the 1999 Report, the Vermont General Assembly in 2000 passed an anti-harassment and hazing law, commonly known as Act 120,\u003cbr\u003e2\u003cbr\u003erequiring schools to submit annual data on harassment and hazing incidents to the Vermont Department of Education (see \u003cbr\u003eappendix 1). Thus, we now know that 25 percent of the 2,551 harassment and hazing incidents reported for the 2001–2002 school year were race related.3\u003cbr\u003eGiven that Vermont’s nonwhite students represent 4.17 percent of the total school population in the 2002–2003 school \u003cbr\u003eyear, the disproportionate number of race-related harassment incidents is truly alarming. \u003cbr\u003eTable 1 below shows the percentage of minority students in Vermont schools for the years \u003cbr\u003e1993–2003. \u003cbr\u003e2.  Equally disturbing is data derived from the Vermont Department of Health’s 2001 Youth \u003cbr\u003eRisk Behavior Survey that indicates: \u003cbr\u003eƒ Of 773 Vermont students of color surveyed in grades 8 to 12, 46 percent reported that \u003cbr\u003ethey had been in a physical fight during2001 (compared with 28 percent of 8,414 \u003cbr\u003ewhite students). \u003cbr\u003eƒ 39 percent of students of color had property stolen or deliberately damaged at school \u003cbr\u003e(compared with 26 percent of white students). \u003cbr\u003eƒ 14 percent of students of color did not go toschool in the 30 days prior to taking the \u003cbr\u003esurvey because they felt unsafe (compared with 4 percent of white students).\u003cbr\u003e4\u003cbr\u003e3.  Robert Appel, executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, reported that \u003cbr\u003eone-third of the public accommodations discrimination charges filed between fiscal years \u003cbr\u003e1994 and 2002 were against schools, and nearlyone-third of the 138 cases against schools \u003cbr\u003ewere based on race.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072810402032,"sku":"2940149019441","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149019441_p0.jpg?v=1763717936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149019441","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}