Segregation in Mississippi Public Schools in 2010?

Source: ABC News

Federal Judge Orders Mississippi School District to End Policies

A federal judge in Mississippi has ordered a school district in the state to change school attendance policies that he said amount to racial segregation.

The Justice Department had been investigating the Walthall County school district for several years, alleging what it called was a "flagrant violation" of a desegregation court order from 1970.

Federal District Judge Thomas Lee agreed with the Justice Department's claim that the school administration was transferring mostly white students out of district to a "racially identifiable white school," while the enrollment in their home district "has become predominantly black."

Prosecutors charged "that District annually permits over three hundred transfer students -- the vast majority of whom are white to attend Salem Attendance Center even though they reside in the Tylertown attendance zone."

"As a result of these transfers, Salem Attendance Center has allegedly become a racially identifiable white school while the student enrollment of the Tylertown schools has become predominately black," the judge wrote.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/segregation-mississippi-public-schools-2010/story?id=10366223

...NOT.

cynically,
Bright

Exactly the same tricks that were being pulled 50-55 years ago, right when schools were being desegregated where I lived, when I was in school.

trying to do the same thing to Wake County Schools. All under the guise of "neighborhood" schools, you see.

:eyes:

Never, ever, ever should a district use race as a sole/predominant factor in student placement. Nor should districts pander to the racist sentiments of bigoted parents.

could never figure out that some of us white kids wanted integrated schools; or maybe that's what they were worried about.