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|'''The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation''' | |'''The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation''' | ||
[[File:Private School Segregation.jpg|thumb|center|[https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-public-schools-amite-county-mississippi?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky by Jennifer Berry Hawes, data analysis by Nat Lash, with additional reporting by Mollie Simon 12/19/24 ProPublica]]] | [[File:Private School Segregation.jpg|thumb|center|[https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-public-schools-amite-county-mississippi?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky by Jennifer Berry Hawes, data analysis by Nat Lash, with additional reporting by Mollie Simon 12/19/24 ProPublica]]] | ||
In Amite County, about 900 children attend the local public schools — which, as of 2021, were 16% white. More than 600 children attend two private schools — which were 96% white. Other, mostly white students go to a larger segregation academy in a neighboring county. | |||
“It’s staggering,” said Warren Eyster, principal of Amite County High until this school year. “It does create a divide.” | |||
The difference between those figures, 80 percentage points, is one way to understand the segregating effect of private schools — it shows how much more racially isolated students are when they attend these schools. | |||
'''U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land’''' | '''U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land’''' | ||
