New York has the Most Segregated Schools in the Nation (and guess where it's the worst?)
In a devastating report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA , New York State's Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future , the conclusion is that NY State has the segregated schools in the nation, both by race and poverty. They looked at patterns from 1989 to 2010, both at the state and regional levels. From Education Writers Association: “ The children who most depend on the public schools for any chance in life are concentrated in schools struggling with all the dimensions of family and neighborhood poverty and isolation,” said the project’s co-director, Gary Orfield, according to Al Jazeera America . According to the report, 19 of the 32 community school districts in New York City had enrollments that were less than 10 percent white in 2010. The study also called charter schools in the city “apartheid schools” because 73 percent have less than 1 percent white enrollment. Magnet schools were the most multiracial. ...