Desegregation

Read more about efforts to reduce racial isolation in schools, including by courts, agencies, and districts
Rochelle Borden, 17, works in the office of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, one of the city's 11 selective admissions high schools. To maintain diversity, Chicago uses a mix of factors to select students for its elite schools.
Rochelle Borden, 17, works in the office of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, one of the city's 11 selective admissions high schools. To maintain diversity, Chicago uses a mix of factors to select students for its elite schools.
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Equity & Diversity The Battle Over Who Gets Into Elite Public High Schools
Chicago’s approach to admissions for selective high schools could be a model for New York City, where black and Latino students comprise a tiny share of students who are selected for its most sought-after high schools.
Catherine Gewertz, May 7, 2019
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Equity & Diversity Wealthier Enclaves Breaking Away From School Districts
Over two years, 27 communities have split from their home districts, and the new districts are mostly wealthier, whiter, and more property-rich than the ones left behind.
Sarah D. Sparks, April 30, 2019
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Equity & Diversity News in Brief N.Y.C. Program Aimed at Diversifying Elite High Schools Comes Up Short
A program meant to diversify New York City's infamously segregated specialized high schools failed to admit representative numbers of black and Hispanic students this school year, figures released last week by district officials show.
Tribune News Service, April 16, 2019
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Education Funding Report Roundup School Finance
Regional desegregation plans can help close racial and socioeconomic disparities between neighboring school districts, finds a new report by the Learning Policy Institute.
Sarah D. Sparks, March 5, 2019
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Equity & Diversity New York City Diversity Panel Recommends A 'Chief Integration Officer,' Schools That Reflect City's Diversity
The report also calls for the city to think not just about racial and socio-economic diversity, but also about creating schools that reflect the diversity of the boroughs in which they are located, including ability, gender, and home language.
Denisa R. Superville, February 13, 2019
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012319 School Segregationists
—Gerry Melendez for Education Week
Equity & Diversity Collection The Schools That Bear the Names of Segregationists
We identified public schools named after politicians who signed the Southern Manifesto opposing school integration after the Brown decision.
January 23, 2019
Students in Johnston, S.C., walk past a portrait of the late Strom Thurmond, their school’s namesake and long-time U.S. senator who prominently opposed school integration. After black families decades ago fought to shed Thurmond’s name, a state law passed to make the name permanent.
Students in Johnston, S.C., walk past a portrait of the late Strom Thurmond, their school’s namesake and long-time U.S. senator who prominently opposed school integration. After black families decades ago fought to shed Thurmond’s name, a state law passed to make the name permanent.
Gerry Melendez for Education Week
School & District Management School Named for Strom Thurmond Provokes Strong Feelings of Pride and Prejudice
In the South Carolina high school named for the state's best-known senator and segregationist, a majority of students are African-American.
Corey Mitchell, January 23, 2019
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Students at Strom Thurmond High School in Johnston, S.C., make their way to class late last year. The school—named in honor of one of South Carolina’s most influential politicians and most notable opponents to the integration of schools—has a student body that is 50 percent African-American. Past efforts to rename the school failed and a state law passed in the 1980s made the name permanent.
Students at Strom Thurmond High School in Johnston, S.C., make their way to class late last year. The school—named in honor of one of South Carolina’s most influential politicians and most notable opponents to the integration of schools—has a student body that is 50 percent African-American. Past efforts to rename the school failed and a state law passed in the 1980s made the name permanent.
Gerry Melendez for Education Week
School & District Management In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists
Public schools named in honor of segregationists haven't drawn the same level of scrutiny as those named after Confederate figures.
Andrew Ujifusa, January 22, 2019
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School & District Management Reported Essay Is There a Path to Desegregated Schools?
Racial and economic segregation remains deeply entrenched in American schools. Denisa R. Superville considers the six steps one district is taking to change that.
Denisa R. Superville, January 8, 2019
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College & Workforce Readiness Opinion What You Can Do in the Face of School Segregation
School segregation may feel intractable, but there are steps school and district leaders can take. Michele Shannon would know.
Michele Shannon, October 8, 2018
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Equity & Diversity News in Brief Opening of New Charter School Brings Integration to County in Alabama
A K-8 charter school has opened in Livingston, Ala., that is making history.
The Associated Press, August 21, 2018
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Federal From Our Research Center There Are Wild Swings in School Desegregation Data. The Feds Can't Explain Why
The number of districts reporting desegregation cases nearly doubled from 2013-14 to 2015-16, after plunging 86 percent four years ago on the Education Department’s previous biennial report.
Andrew Ujifusa & Alex Harwin, May 2, 2018
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Equity & Diversity News in Brief Mostly White Ala. Town Drops Bid to Form Its Own School District
The mostly white city of Gardendale, Ala., will end its fight to form its own school district and break off from the heavily black school system of surrounding Jefferson County.
Corey Mitchell, March 6, 2018
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Equity & Diversity News in Brief Appeals Court Rules Mostly White City Cannot Form Segregated District
A federal appeals court has ruled that the mostly white city of Gardendale, Ala., cannot detach its students from a racially mixed county school system by forming its own district.
Corey Mitchell, February 27, 2018
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