Whether it’s black-and-white photos of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine or Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of New Orleans schoolgirl Ruby Bridges, images of school desegregation often make it seem as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that ...

A judge ruled in 1931 that the Lemon Grove School Board was wrong to create a separate elementary school for Mexican-American ...

A group of Middletown parents are asking New Jersey's top education official to overturn a decision to close schools in their ...

As a girl in Kansas, Linda Brown’s father tried to enroll her in an all-white school in Topeka. He and several black families were turned away, sparking the Brown v. Board of Education case that ...

Today marks the anniversary of one of the great turning points in American History. Fifty years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated desegregation in the case of (Linda) Brown v.

Washington, D.C. school officials pushed back against a report published by the University of California Los Angeles Civil Rights Project claiming the city’s public and charter schools are among the ...

TODAY, A COMMEMORATIVE STREET SIGN TO HONOR A WOMAN WHO HELPED LOCAL SCHOOLS BECOME DESEGREGATED. NELLIE MAE WEBB WAS PART OF A GROUP THAT SUED OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ALLEGING CONTINUED SEGREGATION ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Joe Idlette Jr., who sued to end segregation in public schools here and was later elected its first Black School Board member, died Oct. 21 from natural causes, his family said.

Segregation in public schools has been illegal for 70 years, but demographics in schools still don’t always reflect those of their district or county. We analyzed data from the National Center for ...

It’s time to stop “economic segregation” in Nevada’s public school system. Students from families at or below the poverty line, and those living in rural areas — white, Black, Brown, students of all ...

North Carolina's countywide school district model can be a controversial one. But experts say it's one of the forces keeping school segregation in the state from worsening. There are 115 public school ...