Further Apart in Public Schools than Ever Before
In honor of Martin Luther King, I would like to revisit a post I did about public schools and race relations after I first started blogging. A democratic public school system has great potential to bring children of all colors and from every background together. This would ultimately create a better world. But in order to do this we need to have a plan and make a concerted effort to unite our children.
It has been two years since I wrote the following post, and I still see little in the way of progress for this togetherness to occur. Where in the new Every Student Achieves Act do we speak of ending the racial separation of children? What is being done to create rich diversity in our public schools?
Make no mistake, public policy and court rulings matter to this effort.
In 2010, the UCLA Civil Rights Project determined charter schools isolated students by race and class. Still, federal, state and local education agencies continue to fund charter schools that do not foster diversity.
Along with this, in 2007, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Parents Involved in Further Apart in Public Schools than Ever Before:
