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The Gainesville Sun Editorial Board
More than three years after a report showed the depths of Alachua County’s problem with racial disparities, progress in reducing these disparities is still painfully slow.
The Understanding Racial Inequity in Alachua County report detailed the wide gap between Black and white residents in such areas as educational outcomes, housing conditions and poverty rates. These disparities were long known to be a problem locally, but the report showed that they were even worse here than in most communities across the state and country.
The report, conducted by University of Florida researchers and sponsored by UF and other leading institutions, should have been a call to action. Yet while racial equity has become a greater focus of these institutions, Alachua County still lacks a coordinated effort with clear goals that can be measured to determine whether efforts to eliminate disparities are effective. ....

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