Black students are majority in Fulton ‘psychoeducational’ assignments
Fulton County is more likely to send black students than white or Hispanic children to a special psychoeducational school for behavior problems, even though African Americans remain a minority in the school system, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.
Fifty-four percent of the 140 students Fulton sent to the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, last year were black. Black students make up 46 percent of Fulton's enrollment. Click here to see a breakdown, by school, of the Fulton students enrolled in GNETS.
Statewide, schools disproportionately assign black students to the GNETS programs, segregating children not just by disability but also by race, the Journal-Constitution found.
About the Author
Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.
