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Racial Segregation In The Education System The Suprema Court declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional nthe landmark 1954 ruling Beown v. Board of Education, Contributors To Racial Segregation: - low-income status envionment neighborhood: low funding for schools, which leads 0 poor ‘education Percentage of Americans who think racism is ‘a big problem or somewhat of a problem ‘School districts that predominantly sev lool erecved 28 Railroad tracks divide Charlottesville into entry schoo! three predominantly whit zones o the noth, and three mostly block schoolchildren ave in racially concentrated = S datnets, whore over 75 porcontofstudonte ‘79 either white or nonwhite.” (Neve York Tes 2019) "This school segregation mostly reflects neighborhood segregation. In urban ‘areas, low-income white students are ‘more likely to be integrated into middle-class neighborhoods and less likely 0 attend school predominantly with other dicadvantaged students.” (Economie Policy Institute 2014)

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