For a state long considered a progressive political force, California’s record on desegregating its own public schools is abysmal. In fact, a new study says, intense school segregation by race and class in the state is worsening — and it’s happening faster than just about anywhere else in the country.
That startling reality check comes courtesy of a heavily researched report by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. The authors found that over the past three decades, the proportion of intensely segregated schools in California — those with more than 90% students of color — has quadrupled to 44.5%. That’s nearly half of the state’s more than 10,000 public K-12 schools.
