[NTA] FW: CRP Report Finds Virginia's African American Students Face Increasing Racial Segregation and Poverty in School
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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UCLA Report Finds Virginia's African American Students
Face Increasing Racial Segregation and Poverty in School
State School Enrollment Grows More Multi-racial
LOS ANGELES--In the first of a multi-part series of reports on school
segregation trends in the Eastern region of the country, the Civil Rights
Project today released a new study showing rising levels of extreme isolation
by race and poverty for Virginia's black students. Fully 16% of black students
in the state of Virginia now attend an intensely segregated school, 90-100%
minority, increasing from about 12% in 1989. What's more, low-income students
account for about three-quarters of the student body in the state's intensely
segregated schools, highlighting a persistent and ongoing overlap between
racial isolation and concentrated poverty in segregated schools.
The report, MILES TO GO: A Report on School Segregation in Virginia, 1989-2010,
shows that overall school enrollment in the state's major metros became rapidly
more diverse and more multiracial over the last decade. Diversity in Virginia
is no longer strictly a black-white story.
According to the report, Latino students are also increasingly segregated in
schools, particularly in Northern Virginia, where they make up the largest
minority group. Northern Virginia is the only region in the state reporting a
pattern of more intense concentration of Latino students than black students in
segregated minority settings. Northern Virginia is also the first region in
the state to report that none of its largest school districts are predominantly
(80%) white.
The report finds that more than half of the major school districts in the
Richmond-Petersburg metro are considered racially diverse (20-60% nonwhite),
and that the proportion of predominately white districts has shrunk by half
over the past decade. On the other hand, a significant share of districts in
the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News area are now no longer racially
diverse, but predominantly nonwhite.
Despite Virginia's long history with school desegregation, little political
attention has been paid to the growing multi-racial diversity of the state's
enrollment and rising levels of isolation for its black and Latino students.
"Virginia is at a crossroads," said Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, an assistant
professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead author of the report.
"The state has to decide to either step forward and build on the opportunities
presented by its growing diversity, or sit passively and allow resegregation to
take hold."
Using 1989-2010 data from the National Center on Education Statistics, the
report explores enrollment shifts and segregation trends playing out in the
state, its major metro areas, and the largest school districts within those
metros. The availability of statistics at these different levels makes it
possible for local officials, reporters and citizens to compare patterns in
their areas to other districts, metros and the state.
Growing diversity presents many opportunities for school integration, the
reports states, but a key challenge will be to ensure that districts becoming
diverse remain diverse--instead of resegregating. Resegregation by race is
usually followed by a pattern of growing poverty, which threatens the overall
stability of schools and communities. Alternatively, places that work hard to
build on the educational benefits derived from stably diverse schools can
counter these trends and solidify successful school and housing integration.
The report also suggests a number of ways to reverse the trends toward
resegregation without implementing mandatory busing. These recommendations
include linking fair housing efforts with school policies, using school choice
with specific civil rights protections to promote diversity, supporting
communities facing resegregation and/or undergoing racial change with voluntary
desegregation plans, and teacher/administrator training.
For decades, the Civil Rights Project has monitored the success of American
schools in equalizing opportunity in a changing society. This report summarizes
the most rigorous research to date showing that segregated schools are
systematically associated with severe educational challenges, like high dropout
rates, high levels of teacher turnover, lack of experienced teachers, and fewer
resources; at that same time, diverse schools are connected to a wide variety
of benefits for all students.
"Though many racial issues remain unsettled for black students, Virginia now
faces another kind of change as it becomes a truly multiracial state, which
poses a different set of risks and opportunities," commented Gary Orfield,
Civil Rights Project co-director. "Leaders need the vision to renew efforts to
achieve justice and integration for blacks and to be sure that the growing
Latino communities are not locked into segregation and inequality."
To read the report and three metro summaries:
http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/miles-to-go-a-report-on-school-segregation-in-virginia-1989-2010.
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