ICYMI: Denver Public Schools has been resegregated. And Latino students are suffering because of it.
after busing ended 28 years ago, with Latino students — which make up more than half of the district’s students — and English learners — about a third of all DPS students — more likely to attend schools where the student population is mostly made up of students of color and those living in poverty, researchers found.
DPS and the coalition issued a joint press release, saying that both organizations are working on another study to examine the factors that contributed to the resegregation. The study considered a school segregated if a racial or socioeconomic student group was 20% above or below the district average.
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