Persistent Black-White Educational Achievement Gap Documented

Federal data throughout the 1990s documented the persistent racial educational gap. In 1992, the Black high school graduation rate was 74% compared to 83% for whites; the college graduation rate gap was 12 percentage points. The funding disparity between majority-Black and majority-white school districts averaged $902 per pupil. The 1994 Improving America's Schools Act reauthorized ESEA with equity provisions that advocates argued were inadequately enforced.