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Charter schools are not as diverse as they need to be in states with large metropolitan regions.

That’s one of the findings of a study done by the ACLUCivil Rights Project called “Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards".

It reports that “almost a third of charter school students in the nation end up in apartheid schools with zero to one percent white classmates, the very kind of schools that decades of civil rights struggles fought to abolish in the South.”

The study broke down enrollment by race. Among California’s 238, 226 charter school students, 38 percent are white, 12 percent are black, 41 percent are Latino, seven percent are Asian American, and one percent are American Indian. But the Bay Area’s enrollment percentages were far more balanced. The study looked at 26 charter schools in San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont area and found that a lack of diversity was not an issue at those schools. Of the schools’ total population of 11,000 students, 23 percent are black, 24 percent are white, and 41 percent are Latino.

Look at the study below to see if schools in your area are struggling to diversify their student body.
 

Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards -

(via San Jose Mercury)