6/02/2004

City Limits Weekly reports on a new report from the Center for Immigrant Families on the insidious whitening of the West Side's schools: This week, CIF is releasing a report, “Segregated and Unequal,” showing how several public schools in the West Side’s former District 3—now part of Region 10—have become white-hot for white families, to the exclusion of others. The shift isn’t due to changing neighborhood demographics, said the center's Ujju Aggarwal; rather, schools limit access to low-income, immigrant families of color through a “subtle process of low-level decisions”—by not translating information, by making parents jump through hoops to prove residency, or by asking for contributions for activities and supplies in the range of $700. CIF also pointed to one school that took students from outside its official zone for its gifted-and-talented program.

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