By Philip Tegeler, Huffington Post Fueled by a widening wealth gap between whites and minorities and racially stratified neighborhoods, public schools in the United States have grown more segregated today than they were in the 1970s. As much as a third of African American students currently attend schools that are more than 90 percent black, according to studies. … [Read more...] about Diverse Classrooms Also Benefit White Students (Huffington Post)
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S.F. Called Model for Affordable Housing (San Francisco Gate)
By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Gate Nearly 50 years of protests, lawsuits and ballot battles over low-income housing have made San Francisco a nationwide model for efforts to keep urban America from becoming home to only the very rich or the very poor, according to a paper that will be released Wednesday. … [Read more...] about S.F. Called Model for Affordable Housing (San Francisco Gate)
Studies Spotlight Charters Designed for Integration (Education Week)
By Jaclyn Zubrzycki, Education Week Nearly six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ushered in an era of efforts to integrate public schools, charter school advocates and researchers are shining a light on a number of those independent public schools that are integrated by design. … [Read more...] about Studies Spotlight Charters Designed for Integration (Education Week)
Moving Evicted Tenants is Big Business (Michigan Local News)
By The Associated Press, Michigan Local News U.S. & World News (Mlive) - Property owners across the country bear a burden from the recession: paying a fortune in moving and storage costs to evict tenants who fail to pay their rent. But the owners' losses are a boon for the companies that clear out homes. Their business has skyrocketed, "making money out of people's … [Read more...] about Moving Evicted Tenants is Big Business (Michigan Local News)
A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods (New York Times)
By Erik Eckholm, New York Times Milwaukee, WI (U.S) - Compared with foreclosures, which are carefully tracked, national data on evictions, especially those not involving a court decision, remain scarce, but the annual total is almost certainly in the millions, said Chester Hartman, an urban planner with the Poverty and Race Research Action Council in Washington. … [Read more...] about A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods (New York Times)
