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Sep 13, 2016 · When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the summer of 1974, it ruled Detroit schools with its 35% white student population would have to figure out how to desegregate itself without the help of the ring of white suburbs surrounding it.
- Lester Graham
Jul 24, 2024 · Specifically, suburban school districts lining Detroit — including Southfield, Oak Park, and Harper Woods — have been shaped by decades of white flight as the number of Black families...
- Lily Altavena
- Educational Equity Reporter
Jul 25, 2019 · A district court judge agreed, and issued a metro area-wide desegregation order that included the mostly black schools in Detroit and 53 mostly white suburban districts. Suburban...
In the 2020-21 school year, Detroit public schools were 82% Black. 61 According to 2020 census data, 77.2% of Detroit residents are Black. 62 Open enrollment and housing integration has resulted in some suburban districts having many more minority students now compared to the 1960s — Grosse Pointe Public Schools are 15.97% Black, for example ...
Feb 1, 2017 · In the Detroit City School District, for example, just 2.18% of students are white, while more than 80% are black. In many of the city’s suburbs, the numbers are reversed. In Utica Community Schools (which includes Sterling Heights), about 86% of students are white, while fewer than 5% are black.
May 5, 2022 · In relation to Pedroni’s contemporary analysis, I contend that to understand the state-sanctioned 1999 Detroit schools takeover, we must account for what might be specific to how racialization and political economic processes have shaped the city and its schools.
Jan 10, 2022 · The suburban school choices of Detroit exiters differ by race. Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7 show suburban enrollment patterns for Black, Hispanic, White/MENA, and Asian students, respectively. The maps also show the residential population from those racial groups in Detroit.
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