Bernie Sanders' education plan to take aim at segregation in schools

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Bernie Sanders will unveil an education plan in South Carolina on Saturday that addresses de facto segregation in American public schools.

The Vermont senator's campaign says the plan is multi-faceted and partly aimed at reducing segregation in the public school system. It would end funding of for-profit charter schools and place a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools, which the campaign notes is a priority of the NAACP.

Sanders' plan will be announced on the 65th anniversary weekend of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled school segregation laws unconstitutional. Yet research shows that over the last several decades, public schools across the country have become increasingly segregated.

A 2019 study by UCLA and Penn State reported that three years ago 18 percent of U.S. public schools were "intensely segregated," meaning that their student population was less than 10 percent white. According to the study, in 1988 only 6 percent of public schools met this definition. "Research shows that segregation has strong, negative relationships with the achievement, college success, long-term employment and income of students of color," the study said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders-education-plan-to-take-aim-at-segregation-in-schools/ar-AABxKux?li=BBnbfcL

[riverine]

1. i.e - more busing

Is he trying to lose?

[George II]

2. Does that UCLA and Penn State study define "segregation"? It's a lot different in 2019....

....than it was in the 1950s and 1960s. "Segregated" schools and neighborhoods these days don't necessarily carry the stigma they did 50 years ago. In the neighborhood where I grew up in NYC the local school I attended is now about 95+% Korean, and that's not due to bias or predjudice.

In addition, the article states, for example, that "South Carolina was once ranked one of the most integrated states for black students, but now nearly half of its public schools have student bodies that are at least two-thirds one race." Inasmuch as South Carolina is currently 67.3% caucasian, schools with two-thirds one race is pretty much a cross section of the population of state.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/south-carolina-population/