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"People need to understand that we have race-based solutions because nothing else worked. Other things failed miserably."
Segregation has returned to public education with a vengeance, as a result of years of federal policies that started in the early 1990s when the US Supreme Court and the local federal courts began to rip apart the legacy of the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegration ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. The percentage of black children who now go to integrated schools has dropped to its lowest level since 1968.
By the early 1990s the trend toward school desegregation had begun to reverse. Three Supreme Court decisions set the course by limiting the scope of Brown v. Board of Education. Efforts by other branches of the government to roll back school desegregation plans also took effect. By the late 1990s, some courts even barred school districts from voluntary desegregation efforts.
The Supreme Court decision of June 2007 is likely to accelerate that trend. The decision came in two cases from Seattle and Louisville. In both cases, white parents filed suit after their children were denied admission to the public schools of their choice because of their race.
The court threw out Louisville and Seattle's integration plans. It forbids schools from using race to assign children to schools unless they are under a court order to remedy past inequities.
In its decision, the Court acknowledged that school districts may consider diversity valuable. But Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "Simply because the school districts may seek a worthy goal does not mean they are free to discriminate on the basis of race to achieve it."
The decades-long campaign by conservatives to build a lasting majority on the U.S. Supreme Court may come to an end over the next four years, now that President Obama has been reelected to the White House.
While it is possible all five of the conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices will try to hold onto their seats until the end of the Obama presidency, death and the siren call of a well-funded pension plan may pull one or more of them off of the bench. That would give Obama the opportunity to swap in a left-leaning justice who could prevent Chief Justice John Roberts from obtaining a majority in the cases that divide conservatives and liberals — abortion, affirmative action and employee and property rights.
Gryphon66
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Consider the situation specifically in New York for a moment. This is a long-standing issue that has been being addressed for years. The point is that it is BEING addressed willingly without any kinds of Federal threats or intervention.
New York Schools: Fifty Years After Brown
by Gail Robinson, May 17, 2004
... New York City public schools are among the most segregated in the country. But, if integration has not been achieved, few New Yorkers seem to see it anymore as the most important goal in education.
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Today, of the approximately 1.1 million students in New York City public schools, about 13 percent are Asian, 15 percent white, 32 percent black and 40 percent Hispanic. Given the makeup of the student body, one reason for segregation of New York City schools, said Pedro Noguera, a professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, is that "there are no kids to integrate with."
But the population of many schools is even more skewed than the student population as a whole. Some 60 percent of all black students in New York State, including those in New York City, attend schools that are at least 90 percent black, according to a recent study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University; more Latinos in New York State than in any other state go to schools that are 90 percent or more Latino.
Another study, this one by the Lewis Mumford Center at the State University of New York at Albany, found that Asians and Hispanics are more segregated from whites in New York schools than in any other school system in the country. For black-white segregation, New York ranks third.
The Mumford study also found that, in 2000, the typical black student attended a school where only five percent of the other students were white, a sharp drop from 1970.
Indeed, the current problems may be linked to actions that began in the Federal Government (under G HW Bush) and subsequent Supreme Court decisions made by a conservative-stacked bench
Why is segregation increasing rather than decreasing? BECAUSE race-based solutions are being ELIMINATED.
In 2006, Jonathan Kozol had this to say in an article in Gotham Gazette:
Segregation has returned to public education with a vengeance, as a result of years of federal policies that started in the early 1990s when the US Supreme Court and the local federal courts began to rip apart the legacy of the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegration ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. The percentage of black children who now go to integrated schools has dropped to its lowest level since 1968.
Segregated Schools: Shame of The City
by Jonathan Kozol, Jan 16, 2006
When it comes to residential integration and school integration, New York has an undeserved reputation for progressive values. For the last 40 years it has been one of the most regressive cities in America, in many ways unaffected by the Brown decision. The courts never tried to integrate New York, and the major media, including the New York Times, consistently opposed any drastic measures that would significantly integrate the city's system.
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The metropolitan New York City area is one of the most adamantly resistant sections of the nation, in which there has never been any serious attempt at voluntary integration programs between the city and the suburbs.
This is in great contrast to St. Louis, Milwaukee, Boston, and several other cities, all of which have successful suburban integration programs for inner city children. ... .
In virtually all of the [above] urban-suburban integration programs, the high school completion rate and graduation rate for black students average 90 to 95 percent or better, and the overwhelming number of these black kids go to college. There are waiting lists for all these programs; in St. Louis there are four applicants for every opening.
What are those trends? In distinction to the assertion of the OP, I think (unsurprisingly to some) we must look in a more Conservative direction: The Supreme Court.
Separate Schools for Black Males Might Work in New York City; Segregation Is the Issue
Published: November 20, 1990
To the Editor:
The New York City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is saying no to using public funds to establish schools that separate black boys from their female peers and other ethnic groups. Laws on segregation and integration are at issue here.
As a whole, children of African descent in our city's public schools are not progressing as well as they can; particularly black boys. There is no question that actions must be taken to remove the impediments in the school setting that prevent them from doing their best work. However, further segregation is not the way to do that. Effective educational models will work for all children and can be established for the population mix in the schools that serve our children.
As we focus on educational issues that relate to a global community, an international work force, a pluralistic society and multicultural education for the year 2000 and beyond, we see a disadvantage to greater segregation. Quick fixes frequently contain other problems that come back to haunt us down the road.
NONA E. SMITH
Director, Project Excellence
New York City N.A.A.C.P.
New York, Nov. 2, 1990
I think it's really ironic to be celebrating Little Rock as we're re-segregating the South. And I think it's pretty cynical for the president of the United States (2007 GWB - note) to be praising the efforts of the Little Rock Nine at the same time his Justice Department has succeeded in urging the Supreme Court -- which has been changed by his appointments -- to forbidding even voluntary efforts for school desegregation.
New York public schools, according to the study, are the most segregated schools in the United States. This is not the policies of schools or any authority that is separating the racial groups in the schools; the children of the schools want to be with their own race – something the UCLA wants to stop children from doing.
The study looks from 1989 to 2010, and finds that schools have become more naturally segregated as the United States has become less White. Many people are now starting to grow out of their anti-White education as they are dropped head-first into a minority White society.
All and ONLY White countries are expected to have open borders. This allows millions of non-Whites to flood in and make White people a minority. The next stage is to force White people to assimilate. What that means is, schools, towns, states, etc, are not allowed to remain majority White. They call for “diversity”, but what they really call for are non-Whites.
Logarock
reply to post by Gryphon66
We had a school not far from here all an "alternative school" that focused on certain areas of study. Math and science. You could apply to go there from any area in the school system. It was about 50/50 white black even though the school was in a 98% black demographic.
Anyway when the administration changed, they started phasing out the white kids. Told one white parent whose kids had gone there for years that their application as denied because they were going to make the race status of the students more representative of the local population.
It really was a clear example of race mindedness coming down from the top. Blacks, liberals, segregating themselves from whites.