Schools Matter: Resegregation Escalates

Schools Matter: Resegregation Escalates:

Resegregation Escalates

by Jim Horn

From the Civil Rights Project at UCLA:

--Los Angeles--In the latest of its widely-cited reports analyzing segregation trends in the nation’s public schools, and the first since the beginning of the Obama Administration, the Civil Rights Project today released three new studies showing persistent and serious increases in segregation by race and poverty, with very dramatic results in the South and West, the nation’s two largest regions where students of color now comprise the majority of public school enrollment. Nationally, the average black or Latino student now attends school with a substantial majority of children in poverty, double the level in schools of whites and Asians.

This new research by the Civil Rights Project includes an extensive report on national 

McIntyre Pushes Forward in Knoxville with Proven Failures

by Jim Horn

Despite a summer smackdown on a planned budget increase for teacher bonus pay based on test scores, and despite the Vanderbilt study that demonstrated that perf pay is a divisive waste of time and money, Eli Broad's poodle superintendent, Jim McIntyre, forges on.  

The question Knox County taxpayers should be asking:  Which legitimate programs are being neglected to fund this bonus pay plan with a demonstrated track record of failure in Nashville,