School segregation on the rise: report

[villager]

Source: Reuters

School segregation on the rise: report

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report published on Wednesday.

The rise in segregation threatens the quality of education received by non-white students, who now make up 43 percent of the total U.S. student body, said the report by the Civil Rights Project of the University of California.

Many segregated schools struggle to attract teachers and administrators who are highly qualified, do not offer good preparation for college and fail to graduate more than half their students.

The Supreme Court in its June ruling forbade most existing voluntary local efforts to integrate schools in a decision favored by the Bush administration despite warnings from academics that it would compound educational inequality.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/us_nm/usa_schools_segregation_dc

[superconnected]

1. Yep, we're going back 50 years.

[classysassy]

2. Our country

will suffer because of the clowns elected and the clowns appointed by the elected clowns.

[villager]

3. you mean, "continue to suffer even more?"

n/t