Desegregation
Read more about efforts to reduce racial isolation in schools, including by courts, agencies, and districts
Equity & Diversity
Appeals Court Rules Mostly White City Can't Form Segregated School District
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta determined that a federal district judge must rescind part of her 2017 order that allowed the city of Gardendale, Ala., to form its own school system separate from the mostly black Jefferson County schools.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Why All the Black Kids Are Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Q&A)
How school leaders should embrace conversations about race and other insights from bestselling author Beverly Daniel Tatum.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
What Can We Learn From the Private School Enrollment Numbers?
The declining socioeconomic diversity in private schools challenges the goals of American education, write Richard J. Murnane and Sean F. Reardon.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Facing Our Confederate Past
The recent events in Charlottesville, Va., demand that Americans rethink how we teach the Civil War, writes historian Melvin Patrick Ely.
Equity & Diversity
Schools Become Whiter and Wealthier in Communities That Secede From Districts
Since 2000, 47 communities have splintered away from their school districts to form new ones, according to a new report from EdBuild. And in some states, its surprisingly easy to form a new school district.
Equity & Diversity
Federal Judge Delays Mostly White Alabama Town's School Secession Plan
Less than two months after U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala laid out the steps the city of Gardendale must take to split from the more diverse Jefferson County schools, she has decided to delay the order.
Law & Courts
Mostly White Alabama Town Can Split From Diverse District, Court Rules
A federal judge will allow Gardendale, Ala., to form its own school district of mostly white students in spite of her criticism that city leaders are doing so as a way to control racial demographics in public schools.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Should School Integration Be a Priority in New Orleans?
A New Orleans community leader reflects on how school choice affects segregation and whether integration should be a priority of the city's reform efforts. Contributed by the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
School Choice and Segregation: Evidence From New Orleans
A New Orleans study examines effects of post-Katrina school reforms on segregation. Contributed by the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Why Are We Criminalizing Black Students?
School resource officers are making racial disparities in discipline worse, not better, writes UCLA professor Tyrone C. Howard.
Equity & Diversity
News in Brief
N.Y. Districts Look South to Diversify Teacher Corps
Two struggling urban districts in upstate New York—Rochester and Buffalo—are looking to shrink the racial gap between teachers and students in hopes that doing so will improve outcomes for their mostly black and Latino student bodies.
School Choice & Charters
Louisville Mayor Urges Kentucky Lawmakers to Slow Down on K-12 Bills
Mayor Greg Fischer said that two bills in the statehouse--one that would dismantle Louisville's long-standing integration efforts and the other to allow charter schools--could upend public schooling in the city.
Equity & Diversity
News in Brief
Desegregation-Case Deal Reached After 50 Years
Renewed efforts to desegregate three nearly all-black elementary schools and recruit a diverse faculty and staff are part of a new agreement between a Louisiana school district and the U.S. Department of Justice in a federal court case that dates back to 1965.
School & District Management
19 Schools Are Named for the Obamas. Most of Them Are Segregated
More than 90 percent of the students who attend the schools bearing the names of either Obama are black or Hispanic.