Report: Sixty Years After Brown, Latino Students Are Most Segregated

*While immigration is important, the advocacy and the political battles have caused Latinos to take their eyes of other important issues to our community. This is one of those issues. Education equity is a basic civil rights issue for Latinos, and it’s a basic economic issue for the U.S. as a whole. VL

By Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Week

Latinos, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, are now the most segregated students in public schools, a trend that is especially prominent in large suburban communities that have undergone dramatic demographic change, a new report from civil rights researchers concludes.

Those findings—from a new analysis by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles—were released last week to mark the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that ordered an end to separate schooling for black and white children.

The report also emphasizes that segregation in public schools now strongly reflects not only racial and ethnic separation, but isolation by family income.

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