West Virginia schools are nation's most integrated

West Virginia schools are the most integrated  in the nation The share of black students in majority-white schools is incredibly high — 92.6 percent. No black students attend schools where the minority population is above 90 percent and exposure of black students to white students is the highest in the nation.

Black students are most segregated in the Northeast, writes Niraj Chokshi in the Washington Post. It’s the only region where the share of minorities in mostly minority schools has risen since 1968, with 51.4% having at least 90% minorities.

New York and Illinois are the worst for having few minorities in predominantly white schools and few whites in predominantly minorities schools.

Linda Brown Smith was a third-grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951. His case — Brown v. Board of Education — would lead the Supreme Court in 1954 to strike down state segregation laws in a landmark ruling that ended “separate but equal” schooling.

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