Diversity study finds economic disparities rising in North Carolina schools
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 07:20
in Mathematics & Economics
The racial balance in North Carolina's public schools has remained steady since 2005-06, ending a trend of growing disparity from the previous decade, but students are increasingly separated by income. These are among the findings of a comprehensive report from three Duke University public policy professors who studied whether schools in each of the state's 100 counties mirror the racial and economic composition of that county as a whole.