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Massachusetts' public schools are highly segregated. It's time we treated that like the crisis it is


Massachusetts’ public schools are highly segregated. It’s time we treated that like the crisis it is
The Bay State hasn’t demonstrated any real urgency around integration in decades. Millions of children have paid the price.
By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated December 11, 2020, 3:05 a.m.
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In mid-August, a group called Policy for Progress commissioned a poll of Massachusetts voters.
The state, like the rest of the country, was in the midst of a racial reckoning. And the organization wanted to gauge public opinion on a crucial but often forgotten issue: school segregation.
A solid majority, it turned out — 55 percent — agreed that school segregation is a “big” or “somewhat big” problem in the United States. ....

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