Michael Symons | NJ1015
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TRENTON – Legislation advancing in the state Senate would create a Division of School Desegregation in the state Department of Education, responsible for identifying instances of racial and socioeconomic segregation and ways to ensure diverse enrollment in New Jersey public schools.
The division would compile statistics on the racial, ethnic and economic composition of each public school and do a comparative analysis of the educational outcomes of students in highly segregated schools and the more racially and economically integrated schools.
It would then have 180 days to come up with a plan to increase and maintain diversity in all school districts.
“As we know, New Jersey has the most segregated schools in the country, so I think this bill hopefully gets us in the right direction,” said Sen. Vin Gopal, D-Monmouth.
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