Tennessee has among the most racially segregated public schools in the country, according to a new report.
“States of Segregation,” a collaboration between Brown’s Promise and the Segregation Tracking Project, ranks U.S. states based on economic and racial segregation in public schools. Tennessee ranked sixth in the nation for racial segregation and 20th for economic segregation.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools is unconstitutional. Seventy-two years after that landmark decision, school segregation is on the rise nationwide. Tennessee is just one of 21 states where racial segregation has increased since 1991…