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Report: San Diego schools more segregated
- 03-21-2011
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By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Southern California schools have grown more segregated for black and Latino students as the number of Latino students surged, a new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds. [“]Today, more than two out of five Latino students and nearly one-third of all black students in the region enroll in intensely segregated learning environments — schools where 90-100% of students are from underrepresented minority backgrounds. Just 5% of Southern California's Asian students attend intensely segregated schools, and 2% of the region's white students do the same[.”]For instance, the report found that the average African American student in San Diego County went to a school that was 42.5 percent white in 1980 — but only 20 percent white in 2000. Almost a quarter of Latino students in San Diego County go to schools that are more than 90 percent underrepresented minorities. (more...)
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