New Jersey’s public schools are deeply segregated, with stark differences in racial composition between communities, and the state is to blame, a group of civil rights advocates, children and parents suing the state argued before a judge Thursday.
Judge Robert Lougy didn’t issue an immediate decision on plaintiffs’ request to find the state liable for school segregation, or the state’s request to dismiss the case. The oral arguments came nearly four years after the case was filed by the Latino Action Network and NAACP New Jersey State Conference, among others,that violates the constitutional rights of children statewide.
The case “is about racial justice in a state that congratulates itself about being fair and just and egalitarian, but is in fact among the worst in the nation when it comes to segregation in public schools,” said Larry Lustberg, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, citing “indisputable benefits” of integrated schooling.
In 2016-17, 45% of New Jersey’s 1.4 million public school students were white, while 27% were Latino, 15.5% were Black, and 10% were Asian. Those contrasts “hint at the solution,” Lustberg said: “Don’t consign students to going to school in the district in which they live. Give people a choice.” He asked Lougy to find the state liable for segregation to start a process of determining how to address the issue.
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