New Jersey School Segregation Persists

'APARTHEID SCHOOLS' - "Segregation of N.J. schools 'has gone largely unchecked,' study finds," by POLITICO's Linh Tat: "Many black and Hispanic students in New Jersey continue to attend highly segregated schools - a situation that often starts in pre-K and could worsen as charter schools grow, according to a study released Wednesday. More than a quarter of the state's black students attend so-called 'apartheid schools' - where less than 1 percent of students are white - while the number of Hispanic students in such schools has doubled since 1989 and is increasing, according to the UCLA Civil Rights Project. Moreover, the vast majority of black and Latino students are enrolled in schools considered doubly segregated by race and income, the researchers said." Read the report