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. What’s more, a third of black students and Latino students attend schools where at least 75 percent of pupils receive free or discounted lunch, indicating a disproportionate share of poor children.
