Schools In This State Are More Segregated Than Schools In The South

[hrmjustin]

Joy Resmovits

NEW YORK -- The nation's most segregated schools aren't in the deep south -- they're in New York, according to a report released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles' Civil Rights Project.

That means that in 2009, black and Latino students in New York "had the highest concentration in intensely-segregated public schools," in which white students made up less than 10 percent of enrollment and "the lowest exposure to white students," wrote John Kucsera, a UCLA researcher, and Gary Orfield, a UCLA professor and the project's director. "For several decades, the state has been more segregated for blacks than any Southern state, though the South has a much higher percent of African American students," the authors wrote. The report, "New York State’s Extreme School Segregation," looked at 60 years of data up to 2010, from various demographics and other research.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/new-york-schools-segregated_n_5034455.html

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1. It's all about real estate.

The key and lock to integration. Been saying it (and posting it) for years

[hrmjustin]

5. Yes I would agree.

Nyc is very segregated.

[On the Road]

2. This is Not Too Surprising

People in the South used to say that Southerners could be friendly with and even close to black people, but they would never a black person as a boss or superior. Northerners couldn't care if a black person was mayor or president of the company as long they didn't have to live in the same neighborhood.

[Alittleliberal]

3. It's not necessarily a black/white thing

It's an issue of rich or poor.

[hrmjustin]

4. Yes that has some part in it but race is a part of it.

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6. It's about racial segregation in NYC.