Segregation Is Preventable. Congress Just Isn’t Trying.
When the Supreme Court struck down school segregation 65 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education, it overturned the doctrine that separate institutions for black and white people were constitutional so long as they were equally funded. For decades, federal lawmakers have poured far more money into racially and economically segregated schools than they have invested in trying to integrate them. Today the federal government’s main tool for promoting integration is the aid it provides to magnet schools, which offer specialized academic programs to attract a racially and economically diverse student body.
