Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation — and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities. We found these ...

A ProPublica report found that segregation academies in the South highlight how the conservative push for “school choice” aims to resegregate schools. A Washington Post-Ipsos survey indicates that a ...

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...

ProPublica is very concerned. It has found something that is, as the cool kids say, problematic. Another way of describing this is that any old argument is being used to oppose school vouchers, ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

Now, 70 years after the Brown decision, ProPublica has found about 300 schools that likely opened as segregation academies in the South are still operating. Some have flourished into pricey ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...

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