The report showed that segregation is not limited to race: blacks and Latinos are twice as likely as white or Asian students to attend schools with a substantial majority of poor children.
Across the country, 43 percent of Latinos and 38 percent of blacks attend schools where fewer than 10 percent of their classmates are white, according to the report, released on Wednesday by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.
And more than one in seven black and Latino students attend schools where fewer than 1 percent of their classmates are white, according to the group’s analysis of enrollment data from 2009-2010, the latest year for which federal statistics are available.
Segregation of Latino students is most pronounced in California, New York and Texas. The most segregated cities for blacks include Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington.
The school nearest our house just gave us so much shit about registering my youngest & we had a lease plus multiple pieces of mail. After we got that straightened out, there was new bullshit about kid #2’s IEP. I grew up in this area, but I’m hearing from a lot of parents of color that our new (white) admins are coming up with all kinds of hoops & getting their feelings hurt when the parents of color show them their kids belong at the school.
(Source: ziatroyano, via mydaywithd)
