Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration
By most measures, America’s public schools are now more racially and socioeconomically segregated than they have been for decades.
In the Northeast, 51.4 percent of black students attend schools where 90 percent to 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 percent in 1968. In the country’s 100 largest school districts, economic segregation rose roughly 30 percent from 1991 to 2010.
In some ways, it’s as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Increasing residential segregation and a string of unfavorable court cases are partly to blame. But too many local school officials are loath to admit the role that their enrollment policies play in perpetuating de facto segregation. . .