13 schools fall out of old guidelines
Though Maupin Elementary is in a predominantly black, low-income neighborhood in west Louisville, Jefferson County Public Schools' former student assignment plan once kept black students from comprising more than half its enrollment.
But two months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down that plan for maintaining diversity, black enrollment at Maupin has risen 13 percentage points, to 57 percent -- mainly from students who moved into the area prior to the start of school, or transferred after the June 28 ruling.
"I anticipate those numbers would continue to go up" without any changes in the student assignment policy, said Deborah Jones, Maupin's principal.
Maupin is one of 13 public schools in Jefferson County that since the ruling has fallen outside the district's old racial guidelines -- a definition of diversity that kept most schools' black enrollment between 15 percent and 50 percent.
While most saw small changes, black enrollment at some schools, including Lincoln, Wellington and Young elementaries, rose between 10 and 15 percentage points.
In all, 16 schools now are outside the old guidelines, since Central High was exempt and two others were already at 50 percent last year. Most of the 13 are in western and southern Louisville. Some suburban schools also saw slight drops in black enrollment.
Some educators and civil rights leaders say the numbers foreshadow an increased racial isolation in schools as a result of the Supreme Court ruling, which bars districts from considering an individual student's race in assignments....
This from the Courier-Journal.
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