Weekender | Integration, never realized, is still the new frontier
I find myself often turning back to that infamous first debate of the presidential election cycle (remember the summer of 2019?) where then-presidential candidate, now Vice President Harris invoked her experience with busing as a young student in Berkeley, hurling invectives at her then-opponent Joe Biden for his opposition to correcting the legacy of segregation. However, it is a bit naive to talk about the “legacy” of something that still persists. Nationwide, the percentage of schools that are highly segregated — those where less than 10% of the student body is White — is increasin...