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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Update on School Segregation

Last week I blogged about the Supreme Court decision which disallows the use of race as a criteria for school assignment.
My fear was that it could cause schools to become segregated again, over time. Yesterday, an article appeared in the Boston Globe that indicates that this is exactly what does happen in schools where the race criteria is replaced by other criteria, in this case family income...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/07/23/an_imbalance_grows_in_cambridge_schools/

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