Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation’s public schools, according to new federal data showing that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
On the anniversary of Brown v. Board, new evidence that U.S. schools are resegregating
By Emma Brown
May 17, 2016 at 3:20 p.m. EDT