Report: Half of black students in Maryland attend segregated schools - The Washington Post: More than half of black students in Maryland attend schools where the vast majority of students are non-white and poor, according to a report released Thursday that documents intensifying segregation patterns in public schools over two decades.
Fifty-four percent of black students were enrolled in schools where at least 90 percent of students were racial and ethnic minorities in 2010, up from about a third in 1989.
In Prince George’s County, where white enrollment decreased from 28 to 4 percent in that time, nine of 10 black students attend a school where at least 90 percent of students are minorities, and nearly four of 10 students go to what the report calls “apartheid schools” where 99 percent of students are minorities.
“We are seeing a lot of racial change...and not much effort to do anything about it,” said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, based at the University of California at Los Angeles, that published the report.
