Massachusetts

Despite the state’s early efforts to integrate it’s schools in the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of suburban areas (overwhelmingly white in their racial makeup) and an increase in housing practices such as redlining created school districts in which minority students are concentrated. According to the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, over the last two decades, the percentage of majority minority schools has more than doubled, intensely segregated schools have increased by more than seven times their original share, and in 2010-2011, a small share of apartheid schools existed that did not exist two decades earlier. Deepening lines of racial segregation have made it clear that action must be taken to address these concerns, especially in Boston and Springfield. With more middle class families moving into Boston, integration may be more possible than in the past few decades.

Boston, MA – If segregation ended 60 years ago, how come it’s getting worse? (May 19, 2014)
Boston, MA – Facing segregation again, Boston’s public schools get a do-over (July 1, 2015)
Massachusetts – School desegregation case flares in Massachusetts (July 17, 2007)

Massachusetts – There is Nothing Accidental About School Segregation (April 12, 2016)
Boston, MA – One teacher speaks out on Boston Public Schools’ lack of diversity (September 8, 2015)
Boston, MA – Boston Public School System Seeks to Increase Diversity Among its Teachers (September 14, 2015)

Losing Ground: School Segregation in Massachusetts (UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Humanos, May 2013)
Family and Student Choices in Boston Public Schools (Center for Collaborative Education, June 2008)
History and Timeline of Controlled Choice in Cambridge (Controlled Choice Task Force Team, 2010)
Facts and Figures (Boston Public Schools: Focus on Children)
CHART: The Most and Least Diverse Public High Schools in MA (golocalworcester.com, June 1, 2013)