New research carried out by sociologists at Stanford University and the University of Southern California to mark 70 years of the landmark US supreme court ruling outlawing segregated schools, Brown v Board of Education, reveals that segregation has been creeping back up for the past 30 years. One of the main drivers of the revival, contrary to Scott's claim, has been the rise of charter schools, the academics discovered...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Republican Tim Scott falsely claims Biden policy resegregates public schools | US elections 2024 | The Guardian
In fact, charter schools, which are publicly funded but which operate outside state school systems, are backed by federal government grants through the Charter Schools Program to the tune of $440m a year – a level that has remained unchanged since 2019 under the Trump administration. Scott's argument that charter schools create more diversity is also open to question.
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