Has the United States achieved Martin Luther King's dream of equality?

Martin Luther King’s dream for equality in America has only been touched on in the education department. For what I'm researching, almost all of the examples are for the no category, with very little positives. The black teacher issue, black students are punished more in their schools, Schools are more or less evenly prepared to educate, Black schools have behavioural differences, particularly violence, and people of the african american race are generally less prepared for school costs.

Fact: only seven percent of the nation's teachers are black, despite black students making up sixteen percent of the student population of America. Some schools are working to diversify their classrooms, but the fact of the matter is that based off of a 2012-2013 study, nearly 22% of black and hispanic teachers quit their job, whereas only 15% of white, non hispanic teachers quit. Helping to make this occurrence go away is very important if we are to lessen the effects of implicit bias, which is usually defined as how we perceive other races, including -but not always- our own. For example, A recent study has deduced that white teachers have lower expectations than black teachers for the same black students.

This sad, heart wrenching story between a boy and his mother tell the tale about how people of the African American race are generally less ready to pay for school costs. A 2007 study has concluded that nearly 34% of black students are below the poverty line, and as a result 10% or less of students are eligible for the free or reduced price lunches at their schools. In addition, in high poverty schools, 47% of black students are more likely to attend, with people of the hispanic race being the most susceptible, at 52%.

If you answered less than 50%, you'd be right as of a 2011-12 collection of data released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, out of the 18 percent of all African American enrollments, 48 percent are put into out of school suspension. Even when they become of age, the suspension and expulsion rate is still more than three times higher than that of their white counterparts, standing with whites being at 5 a percent rate. Even though boys of colour receive more than two out of three suspensions, black girls are still the highest percent suspended than girls of any other race, sitting at an astonishing 12 percent. They aren't safe from the law, either with black students being subjugated to 31% of school related arrests.

A study done by Brookings.edu hes studied the educational preparedness of their students, meaning the budget of schools in the district, etc. It found that between three districts, the spending for students was ultimately equal. In district one, the spending for students in one of the poorer schools versus one of the better off schools in the district was about 2,000$, with the former having a budget of 4,000$, and the latter having 6,000$. in district two, the average spending between the two schools is once again 2,000$, with the former numbers, but this is offset by the fact that the race of students did not come into affect in this instance, as they were evenly placed through the schools and had equal opportunity in resources. In the third and final district, they found that most of the students attend one school, and the non-poor in another school, but with this district, the budget was equal between the two schools, sitting in at 5,000$. Even then the poor and minority students still have equal access to resources.

In a study done by black demographics.com, this graph shows that More than 73 percent of all schools in the U.S. have had a recorded instance of violence during the 2009-10 school year. When taken down and sorted into a racial category, this shows that 82% of schools that are more than 50% black have recorded at least one recorded instance of a violent crime compared to 77% of white and hispanic schools and 71% of white schools.

Shores, Kenneth, and Simon Ejdemyr. “Do School Districts Spend Less Money on Poor and Minority Students?” Brookings, Brookings, 25 May 2017, www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/05/25/do-school-districts-spend-less-money-on-poor-and-minority-students/.
Bozak, Ela. “School Violence & Crime.” BlackDemographics.com, 2011, blackdemographics.com/education-2/school-violence-crime/.
Resmovits, Joy. “American Schools Are STILL Racist, Government Report Finds.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 21 Mar. 2014, www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/schools-discrimination_n_5002954.html.
Dermott, Zofia. “Data: Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Schools Today.” Education Week, Editorial Project in Education, 20 July 2015, www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/data-package-us-schools-racial-ethnic-landscape.html.
Bui, Quoctrung, and Caitlin Dickerson. “What Can the U.S. Learn From How Other Countries Handle Immigration?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/16/upshot/comparing-immigration-policies-across-countries.html.
DeRuy, Emily. “The Burden of Being a Black Teacher.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 7 Nov. 2016, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/the-challenge-of-teaching-while-black/506672/.