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Measuring Racial Bias in Arkansas Special Education

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The U.S. Department of Education is asking all states to standardize a method to measure any overrepresentation of minorities in special education. We talk with an Arkansas Department of Education expert as well as an education policy fellow with Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.