New York Schools the most racially segregated in the US

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OCD_OCD: EW YORK (AP) -- New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no white classmates, according to a report released Wednesday. The report by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California at Los Angeles looks at enrollment trends from 1989 to 2010. In New York City, the largest school system in the U.S. with 1.1 million pupils, the study notes that many of the charter schools created over the last dozen years are among the least diverse of all, with less than 1 percent white enrollment at 73 percent of charter schools. "To create a whole new system that's even worse than what you've got really takes some effort," said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project and an author of the report. He and his fellow researchers say segregation has the effect of concentrating black and Latino students in schools with high ratios of poor students compared with the statewide average. Black and Latino students who attend schools that are integrated by race and income level perform significantly better than their peers in segregated schools, the authors note.
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OCD_OCD: The study suggests that New York's segregation is largely due to housing patterns, because housing and school segregation are correlated, but that it could be mitigated through policies intended to promote diversity. "In the 30 years I have been researching schools, New York state has consistently been one of the most segregated states in the nation - no Southern state comes close to New York," Orfield said. Other states with highly segregated schools include Illinois, Michigan and California, according to the Civil Rights Project. In New York, about half of the state's public school students were from low-income families in 2010, the report says, but the typical black or Latino student attended a school where close to 70 percent of classmates were low-income. The typical white student went to a school where just 30 percent of classmates were low-income.
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OCD_OCD: Interesting.
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chronology
chronology: OCD the reason for the 'segregation' is more economic than Racial. As one educator said; 'when you get poor people being concentrated in particular schools, they tend to perform badly'. Teachers in New York must be struggling in some schools, kids in the morning saying they have had no breakfast, that there was no power on at home, that their mom was not home last night etc. As if New York's overworked teachers never had enough work to do, some teachers held up this years school books. Some books were riddled with spelling mistakes and had some pages printed upside down.

The world is changing OCD. The other day I was out and about in Town for something. There were groups of kids with adults visiting local places, I thought they were tourist visitors, in fact they were from Regional schools, few of the kids looked English, even most of the teachers were none white. Just the way of the world these days. I must say it did throw me when they opened their mouths and spoke with local accents, they looked completely foreign.
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OCD_OCD: All the more reason for getting behind school vouchers. Send your child to the best school for them. The bad schools and teachers will go down the drain.
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davidk14
davidk14: .

Government has a horrible track record with operating schools since the decisions made regarding school curriculum is based on politics.

I was in San Francisco in the 1960's when desegregation was the law. They bused kids in from the other side of town by the bus loads and in turn, many of the kids from my side of town were bused to the other side of town. It was horrible. It was terrible. I still remember the race riots because of it. Shortly after the desegregation, my parents pulled me out of the public school system and placed me in a private school. My parents had saved up to buy a house. For many years, we continued to live in an apartment so I could get an education and not worry about being beat up for being white.

No BS.

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The13th: Funny that reminds me, while I was in Palo alto, people tell me not to go to east Palo alto because they have high murder rate. But one day I have to turn in there because 101 get stuff up. The neighbourhood look OK to me?
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