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Opportunity at the Crossroads: Racial Inequality, School Segregation, and Higher Education in California

  • While college attendance rates for Asian and White graduates were fairly consistent and high across all the high schools, their rate of attending a UC campus was much higher when they attended a White or Asian majority high school.
  • Black and Latino were also more likely to attend a UC and CSU campus if they graduated from a White or Asian majority high school.
  • Students at White schools had the highest average SAT verbal scores and the students at APA majority schools had the highest SAT math scores. Students who attended Black majority schools scored the lowest on the verbal section and on the math section.
  • California public higher education is associated with racial/ethnic segregation and educational disparities in the state’s public high schools.
  • Black and Latino majority schools were more likely to have lower teacher retention rates, less experienced teachers, and fewer teachers who were fully credentialed.
  • Black and Latino majority schools were more likely to have lower teacher retention rates, less experienced teachers, and fewer teachers who were fully credentialed.
  • In racially segregated schools, imperatives for educational failure disproportionately fall on people of color.
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