The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

The federal government just released the latest available statistics on crime and violence in the nation’s public schools. Friday is List Day on The Sheet, so here are some of the key findings from the report, a joint project by the Justice and Education departments.  The statistics are for the 2007-08 school year (unless otherwise noted), when an estimated 55.7 million students were enrolled in prekindergarten through grade 12 in public schools across the country.

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