Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Southern California found that racial segregation in the country’s 100 biggest school districts, which serve the most students of color, has increased by 64 percent since 1988. Economic segregation, or the division between students who receive free or reduced lunch and those who do not, increased by 50 percent since 1991.

Wow that sure is some nice progress you got there

[–] SovietReporter@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you please link the source?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

It's from Vox https://www.vox.com/24156492/school-segregation-increasing-brown-board-of-educat

The actual study was released by the Universities as an interactive map https://edopportunity.org/segregation/explorer/

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

School busing for the purposes of desegregating school districts was something that developed in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement; and white people fucking hated it. They rioted all over but especially in places like Boston. In other parts of the country private evangelical schools (not explicitly segregated but de facto, as these were and still are often nearly 100% white) exploded in popularity.

The courts were able to keep these desegregation programs in place through the 70s and 80s, but the white folks were relentless in trying to get them overturned and by the time you get into the 90s, they had been pretty successful in rolling back this one meager form of progress.