Economic segregation in schools has worsened, widening achievement gaps, study says
by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
Feb 01, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — The segregation of young students from low-income families — brought on by climbing Latino enrollments and the departure of white and middle-class families — has worsened across the country over a 15-year period, contributing to widening achievement gaps along economic and racial lines, a new study has concluded.
In 2000, the typical child from a family living below the poverty line attended an elementary school where 45% of those enrolled were children from middle-class families. By 2015, that figure fell to 36% nationwide, according to a University of California, Berkeley and University
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