Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign ...

Farther south, Pungo Christian Academy has received voucher money every year since 2015 and, as of the last survey, had become slightly more white than when the voucher program began. It last reported ...

School choice, she said, “was originally implemented as a way to help white families who are opposed to desegregation flee public schools and create their own segregation academies.” “We are sort of ...

It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many in the school systems ...

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 a recent column, educator Sierra Bush Rester claims that school choice, whether in the form of private vouchers or public charter schools, is “rooted in segregationist policy.” Her own arguments, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The meaning of school choice has evolved over time — the first charter school didn’t begin operating until 1991 — but the result is often the same. Research shows that charter schools make segregation ...