Our friends at The Century Foundation published a new report last week, “Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today” that is DEFINITELY worth a read. Many thanks to HALLEY POTTER AND MICHELLE BURRIS for their hard work on this. You can search by area to see what policy levers are moving towards or away from integration.
“Unlike a virus, school segregation and education inequality are not products of nature: they are the result of racist school and housing policies—conscious decisions by lawmakers—combined with individual choices that families make. Through deliberate policies and practices, however, it is possible to counter these trends, and, in the process, build a better education system that gives students access to diverse learning environments, equitable resources, and school cultures that affirm their identities.”
You can read the entire report here.
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