Sentences with phrase «since economic segregation»
Since economic segregation closely mirrors racial segregation, integrating schools by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.
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Opponents feel, however, that since charter schools can only serve a small segment of students, they only reinforce economic and racial segregation, and actually destabilize the communities they claim to want to help.
One study, for instance, found that among the country's largest 100 school districts, economic segregation between schools in the same district has risen 40 percent since 1970.36
In her remarks she stated, «More than 60 years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education and our nation's schools and communities still suffer from the vestiges of school segregation and many of our largest school districts remain starkly separated along racial and economic lines.
For Public Schools, Segregation Then, Segregation Since: Education and the Unfinished March, by Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute, Aug. 27, 2013