Using charter schoolS, vouchers, and school choice as mantras for “improving” public education, white families in many states are able to exclude or severely limit minority students in “their” schools. They have also been able to change school district lines and thus exclude students living in a higher preponderance of minority neighborhoods, in effect a form of gerrymandering school districts. Studies have repeatedly shown that schools with majority minority students are under-resourced and lower performing, thus denying minority students the same resources to learn as provided to white students in better financed school districts. Using property taxes, even when supplemented by state taxes, usually results in schools with fewer resources in poor areas. White supremacy and white privilege are alive and well in the US.
ABC published an article on public school segregation last year.
“More than a third of students attend schools where 75% or more of those in attendance are of a single race or ethnicity, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office's most recent investigation into K-12 education.”
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“According to data collected by the Department of Education between 2022 and 2023, among 100,000 public schools across the country, about 83% of all Black public school students and 82% of all Latino students attended a majority non-white school. At the same time, 75% of all white public school students were enrolled in a majority-white school.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-schools-struggle-segregation-70-years-after-brown/story?id=113837729
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