Indiana NAACP releases plan to address racial inequities in education
INDIANAPOLIS—Black Hoosier students perform worse on standardized testing than their white peers. The Indiana State Conference of the NAACP is calling upon lawmakers, the governor’s office, the department of education and the community to work towards equity for these students.
The Indiana NAACP released the Indiana Black Academic Excellence Plan Thursday morning during a Facebook Live event, with support from NAACP leaders, legislators and education experts.
Gwen Kelley of the Greater Indianapolis NAACP served as lead editor of the plan. Kelley displayed data from school testing to show the disparities between Black and white students.
In 2019, only 8% of Black 10th graders passed the state’s math standardized testing. Nearly half of all students in the state passed the same test.
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