S.F. schools are resegregating, monitor charges

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Almost half of San Francisco's public schools are "severely resegregated," and the picture could grow worse due to inertia and political stalemates, according to a new report issued by a state-appointed monitor.

The city's school district, once one of the most integrated urban districts in the country, now is on a reverse slide, with 50 of its 119 schools severely resegregated, the report says. That number is up from 30 four years ago.

Schools fit into the resegregated category if any one racial group makes up 60 percent or more of any one grade level. Many of the 50 schools cited in the report, however, fail across all grade levels.

A 22-year-old federal court order -- known as a consent decree -- overseeing the San Francisco Unified School District's desegregation system expired Saturday. With the expiration came the scathing final report by UCLA Professor Stuart Biegel, who was hired by the state to monitor the district's efforts.

Public schools in Blue city America.