It seems segregation is making a comeback in public schools.

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report published on Wednesday.

The rise in segregation threatens the quality of education received by non-white students, who now make up 43 percent of the total U.S. student body, said the report by the Civil Rights Project of the University of California.

Many segregated schools struggle to attract teachers and administrators who are highly qualified, do not offer good preparation for college and fail to graduate more than half their students.

The Supreme Court in its June ruling forbade most existing voluntary local efforts to integrate schools in a decision favored by the Bush administration despite warnings from academics that it would compound educational inequality.

"The country risks becoming a nation where most of the new non-white majority of young people will be attending separate and inferior schools and educators will be forbidden to take any direct action likely to bring down the color line," the report said.

"Resegregation ... is continuing to grow in all parts of the country for both African Americans and Latinos and is accelerating the most rapidly in the only region that had been highly desegregated -- the South," it said.

The trend damages the prospects for non-white students and will likely have a negative effect on the U.S. economy, according to the report by one of the leading U.S. research centers on issues of civil rights and racial inequality.

Part of the reason for the resegregation trend is the rapidly expanding number of black and Latino children and a corresponding fall in the number of white children, it said.

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I have always said that if you enter politicsa as a Repiblican, you need to set your watch back 150 yrs.

Many segregated schools struggle to attract teachers and administrators who are highly qualified, do not offer good preparation for college and fail to graduate more than half their students.

Sounds like there are a lot of students getting left behind under Republican leadership.

It's not the administration. The newly forming segregation should be blamed on the ignorance of students. The simple truth is that racial wars exists out of the stupidity that is already at the school, but I'll get back to that later...

What happens(from what I've heard from different people at schools in Souther California) is that there can be a fight(as there always is), and it will include an African American and a Latino. The fight is completely blown out of proportion and is made into a racial situation when the friends that are involved just happen to be the same race as whoever they are helping out. It doesn't start as a racial thing. But 2 or 3 days later, it becomes one(made usually by people just watching).

As for the ignorance part... The schools that segregation is occuring at are usually placed in low income areas or are filled with an overwhelming majority of a certain race. Now, people will commonly go to where they feel more comfortable, whether it be someone they grew up with around their neighborhood or people of their race or culture. And this will be seen as some sort of hatred or contempt for eachother rather than people just trying to get comfortable.

As for the low income situation that I mentioned earlier, that just means that it should be obvious that it will be hard for the school to hire administrators or teachers that are highly qualified, or that they will not have the financial support by their district to get the necesities to teach their students properly, and that the drop-out rate will be high. It's not the segregation causing this.

IMO, the students are to blame for the racial war. During my time in high school there were at least 2 "wars" each year. All of which led me to losing friends that had to move from the school or being threatened myself, or just having to deal with being searched by the school police officer because I happened to walk in at the same time as someone that was involved with a fight. And I know for a fact this was all caused by the stupidity of the students that made a "gang" issue, or an issue between two people, into a racial thing.