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07/25/2007: "American schools freak out over loss of forced integration"

Jefferson County School Board Chairman Joe Hardesty said the community was disappointed with the ruling but hopes to come up with a new way to protect diversity without mentioning race—perhaps by considering income or home addresses.

The fact that many U.S. schools remain starkly divided by race despite integration attempts is mostly the result of America’s starkly divided neighborhoods, said John Powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Ohio.

He said many blacks are shut out of better white neighborhoods by systemic housing discrimination and since U.S. school funding is based on local tax receipts, poor neighborhoods beget poor schools.

[ What does integration bring to the students? Are they better educated? Test scores say no. Are they happier? No results say yes. Schools are segregated because each ethnicity wants to teach according to its values, not some mishmash! ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724/lf_nm/usa_segregration_dc