School segregation has remained a hot-button political issue since Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. New research from a Penn State College of Education professor sheds light on how school district leaders’ use of diversity-focused student assignment policies could disrupt the link between residential and school segregation.
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