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- Title
THE TWILIGHT OF BROWN: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RESEGREGATION AND VOLUNTARY ADOPTION OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION POLICIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
- Authors
Unah, Isaac; Blalock, Catherine M.
- Abstract
Based on the extensive work of Gary Orfield and others, scholars and practitioners of education law and policy have long known that across the United States, significant re-segregation of public schools is occurring rapidly as states debate alternative modes of student assignment, increase charter school offerings, and the Supreme Court loosens the rules for removing the taint of racial discrimination in public education. However, we lack systematic knowledge of how re-segregation is being counteracted and the factors contributing to the choice of school districts to adopt voluntary desegregation plans. This empirical study attempts to fill that void. We found sixty experimental school districts that meet our strict criteria for voluntary adoption of school desegregation policies. Using student enrollment size at the school district level, we selected fifty-nine contiguous control districts that have not adopted voluntary desegregation plans for inclusion in our study. We use multiple analytical techniques to examine the data, including correlation and logistic regression. Our findings highlight the importance of both institutional and contextual conditions in the voluntary adoption of desegregation plans. Institutional factors such as the number of schools in a district, the history of court-ordered desegregation, and contextual conditions such as the proportion of students receiving free and reduced-price lunch and the race and ethnicity of students significantly explain whether a school district will adopt voluntary integration policies. We discuss the implications of our findings within the context of a Supreme Court and polity that remain split about the continued worthiness of school desegregation as a policy goal.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEGREGATION in education; SCHOOL integration; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation; ORFIELD, Gary; PUBLIC schools; CHARTER schools
- Publication
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1047-8035
- Publication type
Article