Resegregation of American schools is deepening

[billbuckhead]

Resegregation of American schools is deepening
Adam Doster
Published: Saturday January 26, 2008

School segregation is not an anachronistic trend, and in the wake of two Supreme Court decisions dismantling both mandated and voluntary integration programs, the problem is deepening.

According to new data released by Gary Orfield, codirector of the Civil Rights Project, about one-sixth of black students and one-ninth of Latino students attend what Orfield calls 'apartheid schools,' institutions that teach at least 99 percent students of color. In urban centers, black and Latino students are twice as likely to attend such schools.

The most segregated schools, according to the report, which documents desegregation trends, are in big cities of the Northeast and Midwest. But even the South, a region that originally integrated most successfully, is beginning to resegregate.

"It's getting to the point of almost absolute segregation in the worst of the segregated cities – within one or two percentage points of what the Old South used to be like," says Orfield. "The biggest metro areas are the epicenters of segregation. It's getting worse for both blacks and Latinos, and nothing is being done about it."
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And this is the country Obama will easily win the election in?

[flashl]

1. The Supremes believe America is colorblind. nt

[poisonivy]

2. I got caught up in the original deseg ruling

when I was in elementary school, I had to be bussed across town away from my neighborhood school. I hated it, I hated having to ride the school bus when there was a school 10 minutes away by walking.