Atlanta Black Star, May 27, 2017
A new report issued this week found that public schools in the South have become more racially segregated, 60 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that ruled segregated schools unconstitutional.
The report, released May 23 by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project and Penn State University’s Center for Education and Civil Rights, found that in 2014, more than one in three Black students in the South (35.8 percent) attended a school that was intensely racially segregated, meaning 90 percent of students were nonwhite. That is a 12.8-percent increase from 23 percent in 1980.