How School Choice Reinforces Segregation

Vouchers and charter schools are quietly keeping education separate and unequal

“We conclude,” a unanimous Supreme Court wrote in 1954, “that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

Despite the Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, schools nationwide did not rush to comply with orders to integrate. And in many parts of the…