Chalkbeat Research Roundup, September 4, 2019
According to a new study of secessions in seven counties from 2000 to 2015. In 2000 . . . district boundaries accounted for about 60% of the segregation between black and white students, while in 2015, boundaries accounted for 70%. “It’s hard not to look at many of these instances of secession and see them as a modern-day effort by Southern whites to avoid diverse schools,” one of the study’s authors said.