Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...

No modern U.S. president before Donald Trump has explicitly called for the end of diversity initiatives and targeted schools that have programs designed to ensure equal access for all students.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...

Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

In the last 15 years, students in the nation’s large school districts have become much more isolated racially and economically. A national longitudinal study of schools suggests less court oversight ...

Anisa Khalifa: It's been more than 70 years since the landmark court case Brown versus Board of Education fundamentally changed the American classroom. Abolishing segregation in public schools sent ...

In Chicago and Houston, nearly half of white students attend private schools. In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State's country ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

Here’s what you probably know about school segregation in the United States: On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racially segregated public schools were ...

Segregation in public schools has been illegal for 70 years, but demographics in schools still don’t always reflect those of their district or county. We analyzed data from the National Center for ...