By Inyoung Kang, The New York Times, August 12, 2019
Nestled in the scenic hills across the bay from San Francisco, the heavily white enclave of Sausalito is home to a thriving, racially and economically integrated charter school. And about a mile away, in the more diverse community of Marin City, is an overwhelmingly black and Hispanic public school.
This division within the Sausalito Marin City School District was intentional, the state Justice Department found after a two-year investigation, concluding that the district had “knowingly and intentionally maintained and exacerbated” racial segregation.
In a settlement with the state, Sausalito Marin City agreed on Friday to desegregate after the Justice Department found that the arrangement violated the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.
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