Seattle Schools Community Forum

This fact is reported by the Seattle Times .  I note that this is for the county and not the city but it's a trend to note. What might this mean - if anything - for public education.

From Ed Week, a story about the US Supreme Court declining to hear a case about using race in K-12 enrollment to encourage racial diversity.   Shades of our own case.   NY Times Sunday Review op-ed on Brown v Board of Education and what it has and hasn't meant for school desegregation.  Ed Week also has this article about charters and segregation. “Charters could be more integrated than traditional public schools. The great tragedy is that they’re more segregated,” said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a Washington think tank. “The charter school community is recognizing that to the extent that it’s seen as segregated, that’s a negative thing.” There are some charters working in this direction: The brief from the Washington-based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, or NAPCS, highlights six high-performing charter schools, three of which specifically formed to create a more diverse alternative to existing neighb...