A recent study has revealed the glaring inequalities of the United States public education system. Recently highlighted has been the disparity between suspensions of black preschoolers compared to the rest of the student age group. However, the inequalities extend further than suspensions and affect the educational development of various children.

Educational disparities extend from expulsion rates to lack of classes. According to the Los Angeles Times, the report is the first analysis to investigate 15 years of civil rights data from 97,000 US schools and was conducted by the U.S Department of Education. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder went to J.O. Wilson Elementary School in Los Angeles to reveal the findings of the study.

Duncan denounced the inequities found by the study as "socially divisive, educationally unsound, morally bankrupt and economically self-destructive." He said the report "paints a stark portrait of inequity," adding that "this must compel us to act," according to the L.A. Times.

One of the discoveries pointed out that a quarter of the high schools with higher percentages of black and Latino students did not offer Algebra II. The L.A. Times also pointed out that 27 percent of students referred to law enforcement and 31 percent students subjected to school-related arrest are black but black students only comprise 16 percent of the total student population.

To clarify the extent of the inequality in the nation's education system, The Nation listed the 14 most glaring educational faults. Among these is the statistic that a third of the same schools that did not offer Algebra II also did not offer chemistry. They also listed that less than half of American Indian and Native-Alaskan high school students had access to the full range of math and science courses, which consists of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, calculus, biology, chemistry and physics.

According to The Nation, four papers were released by the Department of Education and they covered 49 million students during the 2011-2012 academic year.