A new report from Rutgers University found that despite efforts by the South Orange-Maplewood school district to integrate, “stark” achievement disparities remained among student demographic groups.
" collaboration among New Jersey newsrooms, to tell stories about race, diversity and segregation in New Jersey schools. Her work draws on years of reporting along with co-editor Carolyn Parisi.
The high school is one high school for both towns, so it's technically integrated. But there's a difference in higher-level honors classes and non-honors classes that's racially obvious. And there were a couple of little cut-and-paste micro redistrictings that people pushed out against because they wanted it to be holistic. And I guess there just wasn't the political will until the last five years to do a rebalancing for the elementary schools. It also came hand-in-hand with a long-range facilities plan, because we had a shortage of space in the buildings.
Physically, very well — definitely seeing numbers moving in terms of the elementary schools being more racially and socioeconomically balanced.
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