It's 2022, why are schools still segregated?

Decades after Brown V. Board, segregation is still widespread in education. While state-sanctioned school segregation is illegal now there are still many factors that keep schools from being integrated. 

Nearly 75 percent of Black students attend so-called majority-minority schools, and 38 percent attend schools where 10 percent or less of the students are White. The numbers are similar for Latinx students. And both Black and Latinx students are more likely than White students to attend schools where 60 percent or more of the students are living in poverty — so you have concentrated poverty in many schools. And these schools are likely to have higher teacher turnover, less experienced teachers, and inadequate facilities and resources. Separate is still unequal. -Beverly Daniel Tatum

So why are schools still segregated?

There is a lack of education and understanding surrounding the history of segregation in America. I myself just became more aware of how many actions were put in place that led to America still being segregated today. I was unaware of the residential policies that the government enacted that segregated the country. Previous to doing further research, I was under the impression that the prevalent segregation that we still see today is De facto segregation, but that is untrue. There were many policies, such as Redlining, put in place by the government that contributed to the present segregation of the United States. Due to these policies, many minority groups were segregated into impoverished areas and are still there today. This makes it so that the schools are also highly segregated.  

Biases and racism are also contributing factors that keep schools segregated. Teacher-student engagement, graduation rates, and college participation rates are all aspects of where we still see segregation in schools today.