This surprises me, in that, I thought all the school integration cases were settled decades ago.
Is there more to the story? For example, are the schools there segregated because whites are mostly on one side of town, and blacks reside in other areas, and the school boundaries based on housing patterns resulted in mostly white and mostly black schools?
Yes. Desegregation will need to be continuously applied until the aggrieved minorities catch up academically with the privileged majority. There's only a discrepancy in outcomes because the privileged majority has the best of everything. The aggrieved minority must have the best of everything and more of it until the discrepancy ends.
Oh, and the privileged majority must pay for it all because ... Racism.
There's your answer. The blacks live in black neighborhoods on the east side of town. For some reason, minorities usually live on the east and south side of cities and white tend to live on the north and west sides.
I was in school when Dallas, TX decided to bus black kids to white schools and whites to black schools back in the early 70s. I lived 4 houses from my jr. high and high school but I wouldn't be allowed to attend my high school until my senior year. That makes sense only to lib politicians. That first year was a horror in every sense of the word. Hence, the white flight. My old school and neighborhood is now black and run down. Apparently, no one has learned in 40-some years what a total and complete failure busing is.
“Is there more to the story? For example, are the schools there segregated because whites are mostly on one side of town, and blacks reside in other areas, and the school boundaries based on housing patterns resulted in mostly white and mostly black schools?”
That’s exactly what it is, all it will do is increase enrollment in private schools as the white students flee.
“one side of town, and blacks reside in other areas,”
Probably,and now they can order busing like they did in Boston and DESTROY the good schools .
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This probably has to do more with demographics of the schools surrounding neighborhoods not any deliberate segregation ordered by law. The thinking now is that children from middle class advantaged homes who attend good schools in safe neighborhoods must be sent into bad neighborhoods with failing schools in order that their advantage somehow osmosis all over children from those areas. Children whose home life and outside influences are rotten to the core.
Remember your children must be sacrificed to the village.