I found this article in today's NY Times very disturbing -- about discrimination against students in public schools in the US on the basis of disability and race.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/education/analysis-examines-disabled-students-suspensions.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1344359093-Z5ETWOMTsNtK7huHzI0Cow
Myra Kovary, Editor-In-Chief of the Occupied New York Times