Contrary to a popular liberal narrative of nationwide resegregation, this has merely balanced out a fortunate trend of residential integration, leaving American schoolchildren writ large no more segregated than they were a couple of decades back - and roughly as segregated in schools as they are in their neighborhoods.
Assuming neighborhoods continue to integrate, schools will become increasingly integrated as well once desegregation orders are fully left in the past and their steady elimination no longer cancels out gains within neighborhoods.
A recent piece in Vox presented the Civil Rights Project's numbers as a reason that school districts should start "Gerrymandering" their attendance zones to integrate schools.
It's a long way to a society that mixes freely, but we are unambiguously headed in that direction, and our progress has staved off the school resegregation about which so many on the left fret.
In Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1, echoing decisions it had recently made regarding higher education, it ruled that schools may not collect information on individual students' races and assign them to schools on that basis.
Potter freely admits that the voucher system of Washington, D.C., integrated schools, sending poor black children from public schools where they were overrepresented to private schools where they were underrepresented.
The Huffington Post recently took a look at Fort Wayne, a city whose public schools were put under a desegregation order in the late 1980s - and today have arguably been "Hit the hardest by the expanding use of vouchers." The core finding: "Overall, private schools in Fort Wayne went from 84 percent white in 2011 to 74 percent white in 2017. Public schools went from 58 percent white to 55 percent white." These are encouraging signs, to say the least.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/02/17/the-resegregation-myth/
Assuming neighborhoods continue to integrate, schools will become increasingly integrated as well once desegregation orders are fully left in the past and their steady elimination no longer cancels out gains within neighborhoods.
A recent piece in Vox presented the Civil Rights Project's numbers as a reason that school districts should start "Gerrymandering" their attendance zones to integrate schools.
It's a long way to a society that mixes freely, but we are unambiguously headed in that direction, and our progress has staved off the school resegregation about which so many on the left fret.
In Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1, echoing decisions it had recently made regarding higher education, it ruled that schools may not collect information on individual students' races and assign them to schools on that basis.
Potter freely admits that the voucher system of Washington, D.C., integrated schools, sending poor black children from public schools where they were overrepresented to private schools where they were underrepresented.
The Huffington Post recently took a look at Fort Wayne, a city whose public schools were put under a desegregation order in the late 1980s - and today have arguably been "Hit the hardest by the expanding use of vouchers." The core finding: "Overall, private schools in Fort Wayne went from 84 percent white in 2011 to 74 percent white in 2017. Public schools went from 58 percent white to 55 percent white." These are encouraging signs, to say the least.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/02/17/the-resegregation-myth/
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