ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with racial disproportionality. It begins with brief overviews of the systems, where black children do not fare as well as white ones: special education and child welfare. The chapter then shifts from a general discussion of racial disproportionality to an in-depth portrayal of achievement in dealing with it. Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) has put in place an array of strategies designed to reduce disproportionality for the most vulnerable kids in Texas, including strategies intended to increase race awareness. The successful strategies have come to be known to child welfare agencies in other states as well as to educational professionals as the Texas Model. The chapter presents practical implications from both the research and the successful Texas program. Although the cause of disproportionality is complicated, it indicates that disproportionality unmistakably relates to silent racism and racial passivity.
