Cons may have lost George Wallace, but they've gained Teflon Don Trump.
Didn't he say he wants to eliminate the Department of Education?
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WASHINGTON — Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation’s public schools, according to new federal data showing that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. The data was released by the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday, 62 years to the day after the Supreme Court decided that segregated schools are “inherently unequal” and therefore unconstitutional.
That landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education began the dismantling of the dual school systems — one for white kids, one for black students — that characterized so many of the nation’s communities. It also became a touchstone for the ideal of public education as a great equalizer, an American birthright meant to give every child a fair shot at success.
But that ideal appears to be unraveling, according to Tuesday’s GAO report.
The proportion of schools segregated by race and class — where more than 75 percent of children receive free or reduced-price lunch and more than 75 percent are black or Hispanic — climbed from 9 percent to 16 percent of schools between 2001 and 2014. The number of the most intensively segregated schools — with more than 90 percent of low-income students and students of color — more than doubled over that period. The problem is not just that students are more isolated, according to the GAO, but that minority students who are concentrated in high-poverty schools don’t have the same access to opportunities as students in other schools.
High-poverty, majority-black and Hispanic schools were less likely to offer a full range of math and science courses than other schools, for example, and more likely to use expulsion and suspension as disciplinary tools, according to the GAO.
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Cons may have lost George Wallace, but they've gained Teflon Don Trump.
Didn't he say he wants to eliminate the Department of Education?
Is this just racism? I live in one of the most liberal areas of the country and I can't recall hearing one parent say I'd like to send my child to a low scoring school if they have other options.
Mott the Hoople (05-21-2016)
Mott the Hoople (05-21-2016)
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
People with money tend to like to live around other people with money. Parents tend to want to send their kids to the best schools. I don't think this is new.
I'll point again to where I live. People talk about how diverse the Bay Area is but it's completely segregated in the white areas and were the best schools are. Are all these rich white liberals here racist because of that?
Mott the Hoople (05-21-2016)
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