Schools Matter: Judge Tells Miss. System to Halt Resegregation: Will The Courts Tell Wake County or Arne Duncan the Same?

Schools Matter: Judge Tells Miss. System to Halt Resegregation: Will The Courts Tell Wake County or Arne Duncan the Same?

Judge Tells Miss. System to Halt Resegregation: Will The Courts Tell Wake County or Arne Duncan the Same?

by Jim Horn

. . .it is unacceptable for school districts to act in a way that encourages or tolerates resegregation of public schools.

What about Arne Duncan? With segregated corporate charter schools the centerpiece of the ed reform agenda that Duncan is pushing forward for the Business Roundtable, one has to wonder when Arne's Race to Resegregation might get smacked down by the U. S. Justice Department just down the street. From Think Progess:

Today, a federal court ordered a county in Walthall County in Mississippi to “stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county’s only majority-white school.” From the Justice Department’spress release:

“More than 55 years after Brown v. Board of Education, it is unacceptable for