On this day in 1963, the local NAACP branch submitted a report to the Boston School Committee highlighting the persistent de facto segregation across the district. Why it matters: It took years of ...

A legal solution to the problem of "de facto" segregation in schools could alter how children are matched with schools in New ...

The case, which has been going through the court system for seven years, could be closer to seeing a resolution after an ...

IN 1960 most of the 77,000 citizens of New Rochelle, N.Y., viewed school segregation as a disease confined to the distant likes of Little Rock, Ark. The town’s ethnic mix—14% Negro, 30% Jewish ...

No, New Jersey had “de facto segregation” – segregated schools because of segregated housing and districts assigning kids to schools based upon where they live. That’s the basis of the ...

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges the state Department of Education is responsible for continuing de-facto — or incidental — segregation in New Jersey's public schools are making progress ...

“De facto segregation is something CRLS - and the City of Cambridge - have struggled with for many years,” she wrote. The district has already worked to increase diversity in CRLS classrooms ...

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges the state Education Department is responsible for continuing de-facto — or incidental — segregation in New Jersey's public schools are making progress in ...

It was the biggest demonstration ever held in the U.S. against de facto school segregation, which is measured in Chicago by new figures showing that enrollments in three-fourths of the schools in ...

A landmark school segregation lawsuit could affect how New Jersey's residency laws match children with public schools. ... or “de-facto” segregation by income and race in public K-12 schools. ...