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The South’s Push to Re-segregate Its Schools.
The committee is the front line of a legislative push, led by statehouse Republicans, to dismantle North Carolina’s big countywide school districts by allowing rich, often white suburbs to secede.
school secession has been gaining momentum across the South, with richer areas trying to wall their kids and tax dollars off from big districts in Atlanta; Dallas; Little Rock, Ark.; Baton Rouge, La.; Birmingham, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; and Memphis and Chattanooga in Tennessee.
Since 2000, 71 areas in the U.S. have tried to secede from their school districts, reversing a decades-long consolidation trend, according to EdBuild, which studies school funding. Forty-nine succeeded; nine are in process. The moves come as federal courts have gradually released districts from the oversight
“Southern municipal secessions threaten to serve as the proverbial nail in the coffin for students’ ability to attend racially non-segregated schools, at least in the South,” In Alabama, where state law makes secession easy, suburban districts have been splitting off at an accelerating pace.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-10/the-south-s-push-to-resegregate-its-schools