Segregated schools have been a concern in San Diego since at least 1977, when a Superior Court judge found that 23 district schools were so racially isolated they deprived black and Latino students of their equal right to a quality education.
Unfortunately, only one school left on the original list, Morse High, has managed to create a school where black and Latino students – those most likely to come from disadvantaged families – don’t make up the dominant majority.
Forty years ago, when the district made its first integration efforts, black students were the major focus. Today, thanks to major demographic changes, Latinos make up the largest subgroup in the district and are most isolated. They often face triple segregation: isolated by ethnicity, class and language.
San Diego Unified is not an outlier in this regard. It’s the case in schools across California. The Huffington Post’s Rebecca Klein called it the big education problem nobody is talking about.
What’s also relatively new is San Diego Unified’s Vision 2020 plan, whose major goal is to create a quality school in every neighborhood so fewer students opt out of their local schools.
[For more of this story, written by Mario Koran, go to http://www.voiceofsandiego.org...ry-has-ever-done-it/]
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