For a state long considered a progressive political force, California’s record on desegregating its own public schools is ...

In 1931, 75 Mexican American students were attending Lemon Grove's only school at the time. Parents of white students felt the Latino students were holding their children back.

Mamdani’s proposal to scrap gifted programs comes as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sought to make education a greater focus in ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

Is it the Jim Crow era again? Because segregation may be coming back to the United States. In a public memo issued by the General Services Administration, the federal government no longer prohibits ...

In December 1953, Thurgood Marshall, an attorney who headed the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that racial segregation in America was an attempt to keep the formerly ...

Segregated schools in North Carolina have received millions in taxpayer-funded tuition payments. Together, charter schools and private school tuition voucher programs have contributed to resegregating ...

There have been constant questions aimed at Mamdani that they haven’t really answered in terms of what an education policy agenda would look like,” one observer said. “Cuomo potentially sees blood.” ...