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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: Private academies keep students separate and unequal 40 years later.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Those of us who stayed in the public schools were satisfied that everything was working.”. Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays. By 1977, the U.S.