ideas | david scharfenberg
Massachusetts’ public schools are highly segregated. It’s time we treated that like the crisis it is
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In mid-August, a group called Policy for Progress commissioned a poll of Massachusetts voters on a crucial but often forgotten issue: school segregation.
A solid majority, it turned out — 55 percent — agreed that school segregation is a “big” or “somewhat big” problem in the United States. But less than half said school segregation is a “big” or “somewhat big” problem in Massachusetts. And only 17 percent said the state’s public schools have grown more segregated in the last 50 years.
Segregation is enormously destructive. And yet here, in one of the most progressive states in the nation, we haven’t demonstrated any real urgency around this problem in decades.
Read the full Globe Ideas piece.
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