More than a third of students in the US attended schools in which over three-quarters of students accounted for one race or ethnicity
While US schools are growing more diverse, they remain highly segregated by race and class, according to a new analysis.
“We pay homage to the idea of Brown but I don’t think, in terms of policy at the federal level, we have supported even voluntary efforts that would support voluntary efforts that would facilitate integration,” said Erica Frankenberg, a professor of education at Penn State University who has studied segregation in America’s schools.
US government officials highlighted two contributing factors to the continued segregation of America’s children: school district boundaries that determine who has access to what schools and the rise of school district secessions – the phenomenon of towns breaking away from larger school districts to establish their own school districts.
“It’s been many decades since we’ve had all branches of the federal government working on this problem,” she says.
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