Not exact matches
William Frey finds in a 2015 study that the decline in residential
segregation continued to 2010, at least in the 102 metropolitan
areas with populations greater
than 500,000.
In many of the metropolitan
areas containing at least 20 charter schools, minority
segregation was higher in charter schools
than in the metro's regular public schools.
In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common
than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local
area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing
segregation.
Segregation allowed black professionals, such as politicians and doctors to thrive in
areas where they would be fully supported by their community, and thus more successful
than they would be in integrated environments where they may face radicalized pushback (Lacy, 2007).