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How Segregated Are Your Local Private Schools? We Made a Tool to Help You Find Out.

Our reporters mined a trove of data that revealed detailed demographic information about private schools. That helped us find illuminating stories about how those schools divide communities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-demographic-data-private-schools?amp%3Butm_medium=social&amp%3Butm_campaign=mastodon-post

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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"Local residents were dividing their scarce resources to operate two shrinking school systems, one private and one public — to the detriment of pretty much everyone there."

This is the fundamental dynamic and intent of decades and decades of dog-whistle politics.

In Heather McGhee's book, The Sum of Us, she delves into how wealthy regressive-right elites weaponize racism (and xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) against whites, blacks, immigrants,... to keep us from ...