Report: Calif. among worst in U.S. in school segregation
By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News
As racial separation in education steadily grows, California now leads the nation in children going to school with their own kind, a UCLA study released last week contends.
On the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education ruling intended to dismantle segregation, the report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project says that California students are more likely than ever to attend racially isolated schools.
The report analyzes data on all the state’s school districts and a few charter schools. It shows segregation both at school and state levels has come to be widely accepted.
School districts contend that they are indeed battling for equity.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Forced school integration was never a good idea. This is more an issue of socio-economic disparity than anything else.