Report: San Diego Schools More Segregated
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2011 3:59 pm | Updated: 4:29 pm, Fri Mar 18, 2011.
Southern California schools have grown more segregated for black and Latino students as the number of Latino students surged, a new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds.
Today, more than two out of five Latino students and nearly one-third of all black students in the region enroll in intensely segregated learning environments — schools where 90-100% of students are from underrepresented minority backgrounds. Just 5% of Southern California's Asian students attend intensely segregated schools, and 2% of the region's white students do the same
For instance, the report found that the average African American student in San Diego County went to a school that was 42.5 percent white in 1980 — but only 20 percent
I just updated our interactive map of teacher layoffs to include new numbers after San Diego Unified ramped up the number of educators who were warned that their jobs are on the line. More than 1,300 educators, including teachers, nurses and counselors, were warned that they could be laid off to close an estimated $120 million deficit. Click on the map to find details for specific schools:
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Red schools received layoff warnings for 30 percent or more of their teachers, counselors and other educators. Orange schools fall between 20 and 30 percent, yellow ones between 10 and 20 percent, and green ones below 10 percent. Blue schools have no educators slated to be laid off.
These numbers are based on a new memo sent to the school board today by Deputy Superintendent Phil Stover. The pink slips are just warnings, not actual layoffs, but they represent how many educators could potentially be laid off. School districts usually warn far more teachers than they actually lay off.