California’s Sexual Assault Law Will Hurt Black Kids - (duuuh, WE WONDER WHY ? CDH)  By LARA BAZELON
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown of California is poised to sign a worrisome bill that will codify the Obama-era sexual assault guidelines. Those rules told colleges to toughen up on sexual assault allegations or risk losing federal dollars.

California’s law explicitly applies to children in public kindergarten, elementary and high schools. So a first grader could face dire consequences if found to have committed an act of “sexual violence,” which is broadly defined to include any “physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person” without their consent.

California lawmakers quickly passed the bill last week after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced on Sept. 7 that she will roll back the guidelines set forth by the Obama administration in 2011. Survivors of sexual assault and their advocates, including those in the California legislature, roundly denounced Ms. DeVos’s decision. But many others, including progressives and feminists who are no fans of the Trump administration, tentatively clapped their hands. - Black students are more than three times as likely to be suspended than their white counterparts, according to a report by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Sixteen percent of black students enrolled in K-12 schools were suspended from 2009 to 2012, but only 5 percent of white students were, the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A. found.
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