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Richard Pipes / Houston Chronicle“Public schools are now as segregated by race and class as they were in the 1960s.” — U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott.
Scott, D-Virginia, is chairman of the House Education & Labor Committee. He made the claim about segregation in comments supporting he proposed that would authorize $130 billion in federal grants and loans to high-poverty areas to improve school facilities.Scott’s claim doesn’t hold up for most of the 1960s, when Jim Crow still breathed and Southern states circumvented the Supreme Court’s 1954 order to integrate public schools.
But he has a point, if we start in 1968, when 77 percent of Black students in the nation attended majority nonwhite schools. That dropped to 63 percent in the 1980s and then rose to 81 percent in 2019, the last year data is available. The ups and downs followed Supreme Court decisions that first toughened, then ended, integration mandates.PolitiFact is a fact-checking project to help you sort out fact from fiction in politics. Truth-O-Meter ratings are determined by a panel of three editors.
In 1960, 0.1 percent of Black students in the South — 1 in 1,000 — attended a majority-white school, according to aScott’s statement is on strong legs, however, if the measurement begins in 1968, when the U.S. Supreme Court —“School segregation is now more severe than in the late 1960s,” says a
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