The justices overruled a lower court that had paused the Trump administration’s plan to fire over 1,300 workers.
- Professor of Education and Demography, Penn State
The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
US school segregation is higher than it has been in decades, even if there are no longer overt laws requiring racially segregated schools.
Some communities are seeking to secede from larger school districts to form their own school districts in the name of ‘local control.’ But court rulings find race is often at play.
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