The NCAE found that white students received more than 60 percent of the state's private school vouchers last year but made up less than 40 percent of North Carolina's school population.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — School integration was a vision that many believed could actually be achieved 70 years ago, but as the decades pass, recent numbers show progress is reversing. I am.
“We need to change our perspective, we need to change the way we look at other cultures, we need to change the way we integrate schools,” CMS sophomore Quentin Canty told WCNC Charlotte's Tradesha Woodard. Ta.
Chianti is calling for change across the Tar Heel State. He says the only way to move forward is to be together.
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“It's time to break that narrative and change it,” Canty added.
The divisions used to be based solely on race, but a recent study of North Carolina public schools shows the finance department is pushing some schools back to that point.
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Neighborhoods tend to be segregated by socioeconomic status, and children of color remain in low-income neighborhoods.
“The numbers don't lie,” said Corinne Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP. “I'm worried that we're leading people into burning houses.”
Mack said the issue puts limits on the value of education.
The North Carolina Educators Association found that white students received more than 60% of the state's private school vouchers last year, even though they make up less than 40% of North Carolina's school population.
“Predominantly white students are going to do much better than non-white students because all the resources are going to those students,” Mack said. “There will be serious outrage from children of color and their parents.”
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was once considered successful in integrating classrooms, but now the same study ranks the district as the most segregated school district in North Carolina.
“We need to have the policies in place, the people in place, the concepts in place to prevent what happened today,” Mack said.
As efforts to change continue, some are hopeful that a dream laid out 70 years ago may actually become a reality.
“I always have hope,” Mack said.
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