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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you define as an integrated school? [/quote]

Studies I've read define a [b]segregated[/b] school as one where >80% of the students are minority. So I interpret that to mean that any school that is more than 20% white is integrated. [/quote]

Those are odd studies then.  All the [b]diversity[/b] studies I've read are race neutral and define it along the statistical probablity of encountering someone of a different race.[/quote]

Yes, PP is obviously mistaken. Under her definition, a 100% white school would be [b]integrated[/b].[/quote]

Three different terms are being used here, and they do not mean the same thing: segregated, diverse, integrated. Comment one was about a legal term "segregation." Comment 2 was about a sociology term "diversity." Comment 3 was about a policy or legal remedy of "integration" (and so makes no sense).

Read this 2019 report from the Urban Institute; it does a good job of updating how we think about diversity in schools and talks about the isolation index (which is race neutral), though that is different from legal segregation, which is not. However, it likely will become the legal standard when presented to a court in a segregation case.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/101101/when_is_a_school_segregated_making_sense_of_segregation_65_years_after_brown_v._board_of_education_0.pdf

Read this report, linked earlier, for the legal history of segregation in DC: https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/landscape-of-diversity-in-dc-public-schools/

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True, but "segregated" implies that the separation is being done by the State.  Therefore the OP was likely talking about diversity since it's no a sociologic and not legal issue.[/quote]

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