Posted On: September 28, 2007Originally published as part of the November, 2001 Issue
African American students are over-represented among the state’s 3,978 students in "safe schools," separate schools for students with disciplinary problems. Since 1995, when Illinois first allowed local districts to create them, more than 100 safe schools have opened statewide, six in Chicago.
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