14152740:CLQ said:
"Right from the get-go, this country created an unequal educational system, but the relationship between education, race and socioeconomic status becomes even more complex if you look at post-slavery America. The unequal system is based on a confluence of factors, including Jim Crow legislation in the South, the rise of residential segregation in northern states, and the limited role of the federal government in funding and overseeing public education...
In places in which the school districts are not classified as dependent and therefore not reliant on discretionary spending, the funding that supports schooling comes from taxation of the property values of homes.
There again lies the problem in relation to race and socioeconomic status because racialized communities tend to be segregated, and segregated communities tend to be poorer, and they tend to have lower rates of homeownership along with lower home values on average.
You have this situation in which lack of homeownership and the lower property values contribute to poorer or underfunded schools. Then this is exacerbated by the fact that we have a pretty shameful history of redlining that kept affordable mortgages and home improvement loans out of primarily Black neighborhoods.
And the thing is that this is all interconnected, which makes reforms difficult because they have to be pretty wide-reaching in order to address all of these issues."
https://news.temple.edu/news/2020-06-25/systemic-racism-has-led-education-disparities
So black people were poor and under educated in the 60's due to systemic racism and then segregated schools were banned. But those same schools are now underfunded which leads to black people getting a shittier education and are less likely to get out of poverty.
“In the U.S., school funding comes from a combination of three sources. The balance varies from state to state but, on average, looks like
this: 45 percent local money, 45 percent from the state and 10 percent federal...”
“To help poorer schools compensate for that local imbalance, some states have stepped in. In 2013, North Carolina provided two-thirds of its schools' funding.
"If we didn't have that, we'd be in pretty dire straits right now," says Rodney Shotwell, superintendent of Rockingham County Schools, a low-income, rural district along the state's northern border with Virginia.
This year, Rockingham got more than $5 million in extra state funding for its disadvantaged students. Shotwell says that money helped pay for teachers, instructional supplies, even custodians.”
”In 2011, plaintiffs from Sumter tried to prove that the state's school funding system wasn't just unfair but was also racially discriminatory. In addition to being mainly low-income, all of Sumter's students are African-American.
A federal judge excoriated Alabama's funding system in an 800-page
opinion. Still, he found the plaintiffs were not entitled to relief from the court.”
”The nation's schools had become more racially integrated, certainly, but were still profoundly segregated: Poor kids, black and white alike, found themselves clustered in largely poor schools.”
These are all quotes from the article you cited in your response to me. Here’s the link:
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem
Only once does it mention racial discrimination, and it was a case that lost. My response to you (on page 3 of the thread) was that we have a funding issue with schools and that race doesn’t play a part. I then asked what your bleeding-heart would recommend we do to fix the system, but in typically idealistic liberal fashion you had not only nothing constructive to say but simply nothing at all.
But here’s some light reading for you, it highlights the only current laws and policies that actively allow for the discrimination of people based on their race, sex, ethnicity, gender, etc...:
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/...n-higher-education--relevance-for-today-s-ra/
