Every year, when the National Center for Education Statistics publishes the Nation’s Report Card, it shows black students score well below their white counterparts. For example, in 2019, black students scored 30 points below white students in math, and in 2022, they scored 22 points behind in reading. Other data show that black students consistently have about a half-letter grade lower grade point average than white students. 

For Democrats, the answer to this discrepancy is easy: racism. For example, the Annie E. Casey Foundation says black students are more likely to be suspended than their white counterparts, and a police presence at a school can lower student achievement, which disproportionately affects black students since police are more likely to be at schools that black students attend.