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Despite decades of integration, Seattle schools are re-segregating - Publication Date |
- Jun 01, 2023
- Episode Duration |
- 00:19:31
In 1978, Seattle began an effort to desegregate its schools. Two decades after the landmark Brown V. Board of Education ruling, it was the first major city to voluntarily take on racial segregation in schools – the enduring legacy of racist policies like redlining. For 40 years, Seattle students were bussed to schools across town in an effort to put students and schools in different parts of town on equal footing.
But then, in 2007, the district’s integration policies were challenged by white parents. And ultimately deemed unconstitutional.
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