Education Dive, May 14, 2019
A new report from the The Civil Rights Project declares there is "no cause for celebration" 65 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, as racial segregation persists even after decades of effort to resolve the issue, continuing to threaten progress and erode the cohesiveness of the nation, The Civil Rights Project announced last week.
Among its findings, the report details the shifting makeup of public school enrollment over the past 65 years, with white students for the first time representing less than half the nation's school population at 48.4%, Latinos following at 26.3%, black students at 15.2% and Asians at 5.5%. Other key findings detail the changing nature of suburbs and the fact that segregation has intensified despite greater diversity.