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Report finds segregation in education on the riseÂ
JENNIFER C. KERR ting worse quickly,†Rep. subsequent legislative ac-
Bobby Scott of Virginia tion, research has shown
Associated Press said. The analysis, he said, that some of the most vex-
confirmed that America’s ing issues affecting children
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six schools are largely segre- and their access to educa-
gated by race and class, tional excellence and op-
decades after the Supreme leaving more than 20 million portunity today are inextri-
students “attending racially cably linked to race and
Court outlawed separating and socioeconomically iso- poverty,†the report said.
lated public schools.†In the 2013-2014 school
students by race, stubborn “This report is a national year, 16 percent of the na-
call to action,†said Scott, tion’s public schools had
disparities persist in how the the House education com- high concentrations of
mittee’s top Democrat and poor and black or Hispanic
country educates its poor among the lawmakers who students, up from 9 percent
requested the study. Its re- at the start of the millen-
and minority children. lease coincided with the nium, the review of Edu-
62nd anniversary of the cation Department data
A report Tuesday by the Brown v. Board of Educa- found. Student bodies at
tion ruling, which declared these schools were at least
nonpartisan Government segregated schools uncon- 75 percent black or Hispan-
stitutional. ic — and in some cases 100
Accountability Office “While much has changed percent.
in public education in the These schools tended to
found deepening segrega- decades following this provide fewer math cours-
landmark decision and es, with calculus and sev-
tion of black and Hispanic
students at high-poverty
K-12 public schools. These
schools offered fewer
math, science and college Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., ranking member on the House Educa-
tion and the Workforce Committee, left, stands with Rep. John
prep classes, while hav- Conyers, D-Mich. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
ing higher rates of students
Associated Press
who are held back in ninth
grade, suspended or ex-
pelled. enth grade and eighth ogy, chemistry and phys-
grade algebra seen as ics courses than their more
“Segregation in public K-12 particularly lacking. In sci- affluent counterparts with
ence, they had less biol- fewer minority students.q
schools isn’t getting better.
It’s getting worse, and get-
