ility (Artiles, Aguirre-Munoz, Abedi, 1998). Congress has found that although minority students are increasing in number in schools, many minority students are not receiving a free, appropriate public education. Students who are at a high risk of failure are those who live in urban and high poverty environments because they have been in appropriately identified and placed or not placed at all in special education. These students needs are not being met by the educational system. (Oswald, Coutinho, Best, & Singh, 1999). The next issue that will be discussed is minority students may be misclassified or inapproprately labeled. Agbenyega and Jiggetts found that a minority student is 2.3 times more likely than a white student to be classified as Educable Mentally Retarded, and 1.7 times as likely...
