View our most current publication, Racial Inequity in Special Education, edited by Daniel Losen and Gary Orfield, on how minority children are affected by current school practices and policies on special education.

Special Education Tools

There has been a gratifyingly responsive audience for CRP's work. With the opportunity this affords, however, comes a certain responsibility to work harder to provide support to several sectors.

Action Kits

A Discrimination in Special Education Action Kit, providing basic information for understanding, detecting, and fighting discriminatory attitudes and actions in your school's special education policies and practices.

Contacts

• U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
  Customer Service Team
  Mary E. Switzer Building
  330 C Street, SW
  Washington, DC 20202
  Voice: 800-421-3481 or 202-205-5413
  TTY: 877-521-2172
  Fax: 202-205-9862
  E-mail: OCR@ED.Gov
  For information on students' civil rights, contact the office serving your state or territory.

• National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities
  
• National Institute for Urban School Improvement
  
• National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems

Databases

• U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs

Policy Advocacy

• Civil Rights in Brief: Discrimination in Special Education. A brief summary and basic concerns on this issue. In English and Spanish.
  
  
• Six charts depicting Racial disparities in special Education: National Trends (in PDF Format)
  
  
• Table 1: Risk Ratios for Mental Retardation, Emotional Disturbance, and Specific Learning Disabilities by Race and Ethinicity (in PDF Format, as published in our book Racial Inequities in Special Education)
  
  
• Letter to Senator Tom Harkin, dated September 28, 2001, which asserts that CRP on special education does not support attempts to limit federal special education funding. (in PDF Format)