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Shaping America s Education Agenda
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 06:00 PM
Shaping America s Education Agenda:
Pushing Boundaries
May 17, 2021, marks the 67th Anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education, when the Supreme Court decided that school segregation was unconstitutional. This begs the question: Sixty-seven years later, are our schools really desegregated? The short answer is no. In fact, a 2019 study by the University of California, Los Angeles’ The Civil Rights Project and Penn State University’s Center for Education and Civil Rights highlights that intense levels of racial and economic segregation have been on the rise again since the 1990s.