On the 59-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision to end segregation in public schools, Brown v. Board of Education,
the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released a report claiming widespread segregation still
exists in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the district’s administration is doing nothing to
address it.
In the 2011-2012 school year, 69 percent of African-American students in CPS were in schools with more than 90 percent of
the student body composed of the same ethnicity, according to Friday’s
report, titled “Still Separate, Still Unequal” (PDF).
“The
newest CPS leadership frames the district’s current inequities as an
inevitable result of demographic trends,” the report reads. “Their
fraudulent attempts to absolve corporate reform of any culpability in
our separate and unequal school system are an extension of the
resistance that enforcement of desegregation faced in the decades after
Brown v Board.”
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Parents and community groups from Chicago and Philadelphia stood in solidarity against school closings at a gathering outside the Chicago Board of Education’s headquarters Tuesday morning. The activists also blasted the national trend of privatizing education.
A list kept under former Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan’s
administration of clout-heavy Chicagoans and public officials looking to
get kids into some of the city’s top schools 
Emmet Elementary School’s