Minnesota's Desegregation Rule allows school districts to create "racially imbalanced" schools as long as predominantly black (Asian, Indian, Latino, etc.) schools and predominately white middle-class schools have roughly equivalent educational inputs. However, in racially segregated school districts the distribution of educational inputs, such as teacher expertise, has always grossly unequal between the black and white schools, on average.
All other things being equal, it is possible that some students will perform better in "culturally specific" schools. But all other things are seldom equal. The Education Trust has identified some high-performing, high-minority, high-poverty public schools, but these represent only a very small minority of all high-minority, high-poverty schools. Doug Mann, King Field Soon to publish a pamphlet entitled "Flight from Equality: School Reform in the US since 1983" In a message dated 9/3/2003 10:08:27 AM Central Daylight Time, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Culturally "Specific" Schools: > In today's "List" we have someone suggesting that we should have segregated > schools for students to perform better. I know it was "politically correct" > because it advocated for separate "culturally specific" schools for Native > American and Afro American children but it was a justification for > segregated schools none the less. Since the Constitution supposedly does > not allow discrimination then of course "White" people would also be allowed > to have their own culturally specific schools. Or was the writer suggesting > that only white children be discriminated against? REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
