[Ous-lp-rp13] Fwd: U.S. schools are still segregated

Sun Jul 28 16:35:19 EDT 2019

In relation to our previous class: see below.

Additionally, I highly recommend this mailing list from NPR.

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Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 4:32 PM
Subject: Fwd: U.S. schools are still segregated
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From: NPR Ed <email at et.npr.org>
Date: Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 4:01 PM
Subject: U.S. schools are still segregated
To: <nicholas.turon at pvlsd.org>

Thanks, in part, to one Supreme Court case
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[image: School district borders dividing students who live nearby]
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*Yasmine Gateau for NPR*
Who should be responsible for desegregating America's schools?

That was the question in front of the Supreme Court in the case *Milliken
v. Bradley *in 1974. This week, on the 45th anniversary of the ruling, NPR
Ed reporters Elissa Nadworny and Cory Turner unpacked the lasting effects
of the court's decision.
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The case arrived two decades after *Brown v. Board *began the push for
school desegregation. In those intervening years, the federal government
achieved meaningful progress in the South, and the movement ultimately
worked its way north, to cities like Detroit. But many white voters grew
anxious, even angry, about these efforts.

In the *Milliken *case, leaders from the state of Michigan and the city of
Detroit had been sued for policies that had helped segregate Detroit's
schools. At the time, two-thirds of students there were African American,
while growing suburbs were almost exclusively white. The state was pouring
money into new suburban schools but was building them behind district lines
that acted like fences.

The fight in *Milliken *was over who was responsible. Because the state had
opposed an earlier desegregation effort, it seemed liable. But what about
those dozens of booming, largely white suburbs? Should the federal courts
do as they had done in the South for years: step in and force these
communities to share their schools with black children?

The suburbs argued that their school district lines had been drawn without
malice and that the federal courts had no right to interfere in the local
control of schools unless the black parents who brought the case could show
that the suburbs were responsible for school segregation in Detroit.

A divided court agreed, finding in a 5-4 ruling that if these suburbs
weren't actively hurting Detroit's students, then they couldn't be forced
to help them either. Ultimately, Detroit was told to somehow desegregate
itself.

Today, Detroit — and many other cities like it — are even more segregated.
Roughly 9 million children — nearly 1 in 5 public school students in the
U.S. — attend schools that are racially isolated and receive far less money
than schools just a few miles away. That's according to a sweeping new
review
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of the nation's most divisive school district borders from EdBuild, a
nonprofit that investigates school funding inequities. Their report came
out Thursday, the 45th anniversary of the *Milliken *decision.

Read the story
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Have you seen separate and unequal school districts in your community? Click
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*Now, let’s get into some news.*
[image: Michelle Obama on a panel at Howard University on July 23.]

*Jacqueline Nkhonjera/NPR *
*Michelle Obama hosts the 5th annual “Beating the Odds” summit for first
generation college students at Howard University in Washington D.C. *On
July 23rd, soon-to-be college freshmen spent the day receiving guidance on
how to succeed in college. “I see myself in you all,” the former First Lady
told the recent high school graduates. “You belong here.” The summit
created an intimate space for future and former students to learn from
others’ experiences and tackle issues like mental health, finances and
impostor syndrome.

The summit was part of the Reach Higher initiative, which the former First
Lady started while in the White House to encourage students to continue
their education after high school — whether they go to college or train for
a career.

*A public school district in Pennsylvania faces a national outcry after
threatening to place children in foster care over unpaid cafeteria debt*.
In a letter sent earlier this month, officials in the Wyoming Valley West
School District warned that if school lunch debt went unpaid, "The result
may be your child being taken from your home and placed in foster care."
The district initially rebuffed offers from donors to repay the debt  —
then apologized for the debacle and said they would take the money. Read
more here
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*Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduces a student debt
forgiveness bill.* The presidential hopeful announced the legislation in
June. It would eliminate up to $50,000 in student loan debt for 42 million
Americans, provide debt relief to 95% of student borrowers and cancel all
student debt for 75% of borrowers. Read more from Politico here.
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*And California Senator Kamala Harris announces her own debt forgiveness
plan.* If elected as president, the candidate says
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she'll forgive up to $20,000 in student debt "for Pell grant recipients who
start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged
communities."

*Here's some Sunday reading:*
[image: Parents floating on screens away from an island where their kids
are watching.]

*Katherine Streeter for NPR*
*Parents, sometimes you're the problem when it comes to your kids’ tech
use.* The mobile tech revolution is barely a decade old, and it brings
special challenges to parents and caregivers. Most of us feel like we're
failing, at least at times, to manage the competing bids for attention that
come from work, kids, partners and from our digital devices. Read more
about what you can do, from NPR's Anya Kamenetz.
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*And before you go, something to make you smile:*

*Can ramen and fish nuggets teach kids to love school lunch?* About 6,000
nutrition professionals gathered in St. Louis earlier this month to sample
ramen noodles and Parmesan-crusted Alaskan pollock nuggets. It was all for
the School Nutrition Association annual conference. Professionals took
ideas back to lunchrooms across the country. Read more from St. Louis
Public Radio’s Chad Davis here
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