If we ask whether the average black student is exposed to
more white students in public school today than a half century ago, the answer is yes, although fewer than in the 1980s; after rising in the 1970s, the rate of exposure has declined markedly since 1988.
This makes sense when we see that Latino enrollment in public schools grew by 47 percent between 2001 and 2011, while enrollment of
white students in public schools fell by 12 percent in the same time period.
A 2010 study of Georgia's tuition tax credit program revealed that while only 10 % of
white students in public schools attended «virtually segregated» schools, within the program at private schools, this rose dramatically to 53 %.
, Pew Hispanic Center, June 6, 2007), and that black and Hispanic students are increasingly isolated
from white students in the public schools (Fry, The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 30, 2007).
The study found that having more private schools in a county is related to a greater underrepresentation of
white students in public schools.