“Greater segregation for region’s black, Latino students” @ WBEZ
Posted on June 29, 2012
Linda Lutton and Becky Vevea — June 27, 2012: “For white students in suburban Chicago, school has become a much more diverse place in the last 20 years. But the region has seen a jump during that time in the number of highly segregated black and Latino schools, a new WBEZ analysis shows.
Half of all African American students in the region still go to school in what sociologists would consider “extreme segregation, ” in schools where 90 percent or more of students are African American. Twenty-two percent of all Latino public school students in the eight-county region go to highly segregated schools, a proportion that is growing in the city and the suburbs.
WBEZ compared school demographics from 20 years ago and today for our series Race: Out Loud. We examined schools in Chicago, suburban Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties………………………….”
Read more at WBEZ.