Politico, May 10, 2019
Researchers from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State University and elsewhere found that the share of "intensely segregated" schools enrolling 90 percent or more non-white students was at 18.2 percent in 2016 — a three-fold increase from 1988.
Desegregation attempts peaked in the late 1980s, and white students today are the most racially isolated of all racial groups in schools, the researchers found. Meanwhile, the majority of Latino students attends a school that's extremely segregated, with many black and Latino students in K-12 schools seeing “double segregation” — racial and economic, they said.
“In the 1990s, a series of Supreme Court decisions led to the end of hundreds of desegregation orders and plans across the nation,” the authors wrote in research to be presented today. “This report shows that the growth of racial and economic segregation that began then has now continued unchecked for nearly three decades, placing the promise of Brown at grave risk.” Our Kimberly Hefling has more.
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