Sentences with phrase «racial segregation across»

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

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The study intended to report on, among other things, levels of racial segregation in charter schools across the United States.

Since the 1950s, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation is unconstitutional, and while many schools worked to change their student demographics, little actually changed in how this played out inside classrooms across America.

Texas could be a national leader in supporting these innovative schools and it could not come at a better time with race relations suffering across the nation and schools experiencing severe racial segregation.

While the end of court - ordered desegregation measures has caused a modest increase in segregation within public school districts, a large majority of racial segregation occurs across district lines.

This paper uses evidence from Durham, North Carolina to examine the impact of school choice on racial and class - based segregation across schools.

Reason for despair: The continued tacit acceptance of deep racial and social segregation across most of our school system, from prekindergarten through colleges and grad schools.

Studies from across the country find that racial segregation is higher in private schools that accept vouchers than in the public schools.

Knowing what we do about the historical background of housing segregation along with the impact of funding on school quality, it is clear that, across income and racial or ethnic groups, the access to high - scoring schools is severely unequal.