Century Foundation and the 74 Present Case Studies on Diversity-Driven Classrooms
Historically speaking, charter schools have not been diversity’s best friend. Compared with all public schools — which, by many measures, are more segregated today than they were in the 1970s — charter schools stand out as particularly likely to be racially or economically segregated. One 2017 analysis found that 17 percent of charter schools have an enrollment that is 99 percent nonwhite, compared with just 4 percent of traditional public schools.
But an increasing number of charter schools and charter networks across the country are using the flexibility of the charter model to incorporate diversity into their school design. In partnership with The Century Foundation, The 74 presents profiles of four of these schools, among 125 the foundation included in its first-ever nationwide inventory of diversity in the public charter school sector.
You can read more of our previous coverage on the foundation’s expansive analysis of 5,700 charter schools in all 50 states...