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A New Jersey Lawsuit Urges the State to Fix School Segregation

New Jersey’s schools are among the most segregated in the country and will become even more so without state action, advocacy groups who have sued the state argued in court Thursday.

The 2018 lawsuit alleges that segregation is perpetuated by New Jersey laws that restrict students, with few exceptions, from attending schools outside their district — to the detriment of nonwhite students. The suit by several advocacy groups including the Latino Action Network and the state NAACP seeks a declaration that New Jersey must find a solution to the problem.

The state has argued that while there’s room to improve under the current system, the groups’ claim that the statewide system is unconstitutional isn’t supported by the evidence they have provided, which came from a small number of school districts.

Read the source article at Associated Press News

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