Study says racial segregation is common in charter schools

Feb. 5, 2010
UCLA project finds that charter schools are more segregated than conventional public schools
From The San Francisco Chronicle: De facto racial segregation is alive and well in public schools in virtually every state, but is more common in charter schools, according to a national study. The study by the UCLA Civil Rights Project says that nearly 3 out of 4 black students who attend charters are in "intensely segregated" schools with student populations that are at least 90 percent minority. That's twice the rate of regular public schools. Almost a third of those black students are in what the researchers called "apartheid schools," where 0 to 1 percent of their classmates are white.

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