Penn State News, May 10, 2019
As the nation prepares to mark the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, the UCLA Civil Rights Project and the Penn State Center for Education and Civil Rights today (May 10) published new research detailing school enrollment patterns and segregation in the nation’s schools. The findings are not cause for celebration, said the researchers.
The report, "Harming our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years After Brown," details the transformation of the nation’s public-school enrollment from primarily a two-race, white and black school population, to a truly multiracial population reshaped by a surging Latino population and the emergence of a significant population of Asian students. Despite increased diversity in the U.S. population, the new research finds the segregation of black students expanding across the nation and the majority of Latino students attending schools that are extremely segregated. Asian students attend schools where on average one quarter of other students are Asian.