"At a time when the Obama administration continues to push for more charter schools, a new study by the Civil Rights Project of the University of California-Los Angeles has concluded they are more segregated than traditional public schools.
Based on analysis of federal data from California and 39 other states, the study concluded that, while enrollment in charter schools is relatively small compared to traditional public schools, they show high levels of minority segregation, for example, high concentrations of Latinos or black students.
In other areas, where Latino students are the majority in the overall student population, they under-enroll in charters, suggesting that the schools serve as 'havens for white flight from public schools,' the study found."
