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In the ruling, the court emphasized that education was 鈥減erhaps the most important function of state and local governments鈥� and that school desegregation was .

In , federal judges held hundreds of desegregation hearings; the National Guard was deployed to protect nine black students integrating Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas; tens of thousands marched on Washington in support of integration; and Congress passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.

But our schools, in recent years, have become re-segregated. And it鈥檚 not just hurting students of color.

Our team found that 鈥渢he average black student attended a school that was 48.8 percent black and 27.6 percent white. On the flip side, the average white student attended a school that was 72.5 percent white and only 8.3 percent black.鈥�

In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nikole Hannah-Jones reported for ProPublica that 鈥�1 in 3 black students attends a school that looks .鈥�

In Charlottesville, Virginia, , with three predominantly white schools in the north and three predominantly black schools in the south.

In Mississippi, inadequate funding and inferior educational opportunities in predominantly black schools have聽created a racial achievement gap.

But segregation isn鈥檛 unique to the South.

A coalition of civil rights groups and students are over policies that require most children to attend their neighborhood schools, which has resulted in extreme racial and economic segregation. The suit argues that this segregation hurts the academic performance and personal development of all students in the public school system and perpetuates preexisting societal prejudices.

Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, spoke with our team about the issue. 鈥淪chools are more segregated today than at any time in the last 45 years. The reason that they鈥檙e more segregated is because .鈥�

But the impacts of residential segregation are compounded by other factors.

In , 40 percent of kindergartners do not attend their local elementary school. The city has a vast network of private schools, and public school students gain admittance to schools . As a result, children are stratified by factors such as race, class and economic opportunity from an early age.

The children attending the are 41 percent Latino, 27 percent black and 16 percent Asian. Yet New York City鈥檚 public schools are .

Despite these troubling trends, the has aggressively rolled back Obama-era policies designed to increase diversity in classrooms and on campuses; delayed the implementation of rules that would address racial disparities in school placement; and dismissed more than 1,200 civil rights investigations started under the Obama administration.

We cannot continue to accept the low standard of desegregation, where our classrooms and communities simply cease to be entirely homogeneous. We must create classrooms and communities that proportionately reflect the makeup of our society 鈥� and ensure equal access to opportunity for all, regardless of race or class.

We need to ; end discriminatory housing policies that exclude low-income and minority families from certain communities and neighborhoods; and prioritize programs that promote diversity in our schools.

Segregation didn鈥檛 happen accidentally. We must pursue integration with the same intentionality.

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