WNYC Studios, May 16, 2019
A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA says that 65 years after Brown v. Board, school segregation in America is actually getting worse, with black and Latino students, in particular, attending schools that are mostly non-white.
Since Brown, the demographics of our country have shifted to change the makeup of the student body itself, so that school segregation is no longer a black-white issue. However, our schools don’t reflect that reality. According to the new report, the share of intensely segregated minority schools, schools that enroll 90-100 percent non-white students, has more than tripled from 5.7 percent in 1988 to 18.2 percent in 2016.