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Bay Area charter schools are diverse, study says
- 02-18-2010
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By Doug Oakley/Contra Costa Times
The Bay Area is bucking a national trend of racial segregation in charter schools, according to a new national study. The study by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA called "Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards" was released Feb. 4 and found that charter schools "are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan region." Almost a third of charter school students in the nation end up "in apartheid schools with zero to one percent white classmates, the very kind of schools that decades of civil rights struggles fought to abolish in the South." (more...)
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