Virtually all DeKalb County students assigned to a psychoeducational program for behavioral disorders are black, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.
Black children make up 94 percent of DeKalb's students in the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS. But African Americans account for just 69 percent of DeKalb's enrollment, a gap of 26 percentage points. Click here to see a breakdown, by school, of the DeKalb students enrolled in GNETS.
Statewide, schools disproportionately place black students in GNETS programs, segregating them not only by disability but also by race, the Journal-Constitution found.
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