S.F. Schools Becoming More Segregated
Racial segregation is returning to the San Francisco school system, following a 1999 court order that forced the district to stop using race and ethnicity in assigning children to schools, a recent report concludes.
In addition, African-American and Latino students are attending school at disturbingly lower rates than their Asian-American and white peers, according to the report, which was issued this summer by the state-appointed monitor who oversees the district's 17-year-old desegregation consent decree.
In the second school year since the race-based assignments ended, the incoming classes in 20 of the district's 116 schools have become "severely segregated," the report found. The designation means that more than 60 percent of the students in those classes are now of one...
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