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Denver’s Deeply Segregated Schools Fit a National Trend
April 4, 2016By Alan Gottlieb Colorado’s largest urban center suffers from the same segregation of students of color in high-poverty schools as cities across the country, a new analysis of federal data shows. The analysis by The Atlantic comes from an...
Separate but equal? Wealthy county’s plan would concentrate low-income, Hispanic students
March 25, 2016The nation’s most segregated schools often are among the worst performing, experts say, in part because of the concentration of poverty and the myriad challenges that come with it. (Read...
Infrastructure Failures, Like Flint, Are a Crisis for Black America
February 9, 2016By Charles D. Ellison It’s easy to view the bubbling toxic-water crisis in Flint, Mich., as the case of yet another majority-black city victimized by institutional neglect. Michigan itself is a cautionary tale of once-thriving Northern...