American Schools Remain Deeply Segregated
Forty percent of low-income children in the United States attend schools with poverty rates of 75 percent or higher, reflecting a broader trend of racial and economic segregation and isolation in schools, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. Isolated and Segregated: A New Look at the Income Divide in Our Nation’s Schooling System finds that a large majority (70 percent) of Americans say that more should be done to integrate low- and high-poverty schools. The authors argue that the federal government should expand funding for integration strategies and incentivize states to track and report patterns of school segregation by race and income.