{"id":393502,"date":"2010-03-05T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.southernstudies.org,2010:\/\/5.12169"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:08:00","slug":"institute-index-re-segregating-the-souths-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393502","title":{"rendered":"INSTITUTE INDEX: Re-segregating the South&#8217;s schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkname=&amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southernstudies.org%2F2010%2F03%2Finstitute-index-re-segregating-the-souths-schools.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_171_16.png\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\" border=\"0\" height=\"16\" width=\"171\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">a2a_linkurl=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2010\/03\/institute-index-re-segregating-the-souths-schools.html\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/images\/sitepieces\/resegregation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"resegregation.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/resegregation-thumb-250x183.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"183\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Year in which Wake County, N.C. instituted an anti-segregation<br \/>\ndiversity policy that assigned students by economics rather than race: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2010\/03\/03\/367017\/wake-ends-diversity-policy-in.html\" >2000<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which Wake County voters elected a new Republican-backed school board majority that opposes the diversity policy: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernstudies.org\/2009\/11\/north-carolina-school-board-election-may-spark-civil-rights-lawsuit.html\" >2009<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of the county&#8217;s voters that took part in that election: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/gyrobase\/Content?oid=oid%3A411916\" >4.5<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date on which the school board took its first formal vote to scrap the diversity policy and return to neighborhood schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/03\/the-ideological-march-backwards-rolls-on-in-wake-county\/\" >3\/2\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date on which the board voted to hire the conservative, pro-voucher<br \/>\nCivitas Institute of Raleigh to provide its members&#8217; training: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/03\/the-ideological-march-backwards-rolls-on-in-wake-county\/\" >3\/2\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of Art Pope &#8212; primary Civitas benefactor and director of<br \/>\nAmericans for Prosperity, the group behind the Tea Party anti-tax<br \/>\nprotests &#8212; among individual contributors to the anti-diversity<br \/>\ncandidates&#8217; campaigns: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2010\/02\/09\/328930\/2-invested-big-in-schools-race.html\" >2<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rank of Robert Luddy, current chair of Civitas and operator of a chain of private and charter schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/03\/the-ideological-march-backwards-rolls-on-in-wake-county\/\" >1<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which Luddy founded Thales Academy, a chain of private K-8 schools in Wake County: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalesacademy.org\/apex\/about-us\/history\/\" >2007<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which the chain opened an academy in Apex, N.C., with current<br \/>\nWake School Board Chair Ron Margiotta serving as a trustee: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/katysconservativecorner.typepad.com\/katy\/2008\/01\/thales-academy.html\" >2008<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yearly tuition charged by Thales Academy: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalesacademy.org\/apex\/about-us\/\" >$5,200<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Number of school buses provided for Thales Academy students: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalesacademy.org\/apex\/about-us\/frequently-asked-questions\/\" >0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which Luddy plans to open a new Thales Academy location in Raleigh on a site his company recently acquired: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalesacademy.org\/2010\/01\/expansion-into-north-raleigh\/?a\" >2012<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Size of the tax credit for private-school students that Luddy advocated<br \/>\nin an op-ed titled &#8220;Encouraging alternatives to Wake County schools&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwestwakenews.com\/2010\/02\/17\/4414\/encouraging-alternatives-to-wake.html\" >$2,500<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which Luddy won the first-ever entrepreneurship award given by<br \/>\nthe Ludwig von Mises Institute, an economic think-tank based in Alabama<br \/>\nthat <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/daily\/2216\" >promotes<\/a> doing away with the public school system: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalesacademy.org\/files\/Bio_of_Robert_Luddy_7-1-08.pdf\" >2006<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of black students in majority-white schools in the South in 1954, when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/research\/deseg\/Resegregation_American_Schools99.pdf\" >.001<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage in 1988, when integration peaked: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/research\/deseg\/Resegregation_American_Schools99.pdf\" >43.5<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage in 1996, five years after a Supreme Court decision allowing school boards to return to neighborhood schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/research\/deseg\/Resegregation_American_Schools99.pdf\" >34.7<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, percentage of black students who now attend what a report called &#8220;intensely segregated schools&#8221;: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/news\/pressreleases\/pressrelease20090114-report.html\" >39<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Percentage of Latinos who now attend intensely segregated schools: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/news\/pressreleases\/pressrelease20090114-report.html\" >40<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Year in which the Education Trust published a report finding that<br \/>\npublic schools serving the most economically disadvantaged students<br \/>\nwithin individual districts are typically underfunded: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtrust.org\/dc\/publication\/the-funding-gap-0\" >2006<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date when the Wake County school board is scheduled to take a final vote to end the diversity policy: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/story\/7150967\/\" >3\/23\/2010<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>(Click on the figure to go to the original source. The chart is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/research\/deseg\/deseg06.php#fullreport\">&#8220;Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation,&#8221;<\/a> by Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee, The UCLA Civil Rights Project, 2006.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year in which Wake County, N.C. instituted an anti-segregation diversity policy that assigned students by economics rather than race: 2000 Year in which Wake County voters elected a new Republican-backed school board majority that opposes the diversity policy: 2009 Percentage of the county&#8217;s voters that took part in that election: 4.5 Date on which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}