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Public schools in S.F. becoming more segregated
Court order ended race-based admissions in '99

Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, August 8, 2003

San Francisco -- More than 40 of San Francisco's 114 public schools are likely to have "severely resegregated" student populations when school starts in less than three weeks, according to a state-appointed monitor.

San Francisco, once one of the most integrated urban districts in the country, now is on "a continuing slide toward additional resegregation," Stuart Biegel wrote in a study released Thursday.

The number of segregated schools in the city -- those with one ethnic group making up 60 percent or more of at least one grade -- jumped from 30 schools two years ago, said Biegel, a UCLA law and education professor hired by the state to monitor the district's desegregation program.

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