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US schools remain highly segregated by race and class, analysis shows

Author:     Edwin Rios
Source:     The Guardian (UK.)
Publication Date:     Fri 15 Jul 2022 10.55 EDT
 Link: US schools remain highly segregated by race and class, analysis shows
Stephan:   The Republican Party has been trying to dismantle public education in the United States for years. They have two goals. Keep schools segregated and make sure children of color get fewer resources, and have poorer programs; make publica education a process of indoctrination not education about facts. This is all part of making America an anocracy.
US government officials highlighted two contributing factors to the continued segregation of America’s children: school district boundaries and the phenomenon of local communities breaking away from larger school districts. Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP

While US schools are growing more diverse, they remain highly segregated by race and class, according to a new analysis.

More than a third of students in the US attended racially segregated schools – schools in which more than three-quarters of students accounted for one race or ethnicity, according to an analysis of 2020-21 Common Core education data by the US Government Accountability Office. What’s more, more than one in 10 students – 14% – attended schools where 90% of students were of one race or ethnicity.

The report, released Thursday, comes just six years after the agency found a stark increase in the percentage of poor, Black and Latino students attending predominantly poor and minority schools over the course of a decade and a half. It also comes decades after the US supreme court declared “separate but equal” schooling unconstitutional in the landmark case Brown v Board of […]

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