Race and Schools

Race affects the suspension rates of schoolchildren:

In many of the nation’s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys, according to a new study, which also found that black girls were suspended at four times the rate of white girls.

School authorities also suspended Hispanic and American Indian middle school students at higher rates than white students, though not at such disproportionate rates as for black children, the study found. Asian students were less likely to be suspended than whites.

No Justice for Native Women

There is a long history of serious problems in the investigation and prosecution of violence against Native women. An excellent two-part background article here explains some of the reasons for that. Now there's another case of what is, at best, a "bungled investigation":

From 2005-2007, at least one serial rapist posing as a police officer spent two years sexually assaulting a minimum of 17 teenagers as young as 13 years old. The crimes were not investigated—and the public was not notified of the threat—until 6 months after the first rape occurred... The BIA task force...closed the case two months later after arresting three men. Members of the task force eventually received cash awards and national commendations for their work.
But The Republic...found that the agents bungled the entire investigation, without regard for whether the real rapist was caught. Lack of evidence ensured that U.S. attorneys were unable to prosecute the suspects fingered by investigators, and a string of emails sent between BIA agents reveal that they knew the rapist was still at large.

The original article is also full of links to a range of sources on these issues.