- Although re-segregation has been occurring for black students in all regions, it has been more rapid in the south, which recently lost its distinction as the most desegregated region.
- Black and Latino students enrolled in large central city schools remain in the most segregated schools; almost 2 out of every 3 Black and Latino students attend 90-100% nonwhite schools.
- In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 the Supreme Court held that the use of individual student race in public school assignment plans was not constitutional even if the desegregation plan is voluntary.
- The Supreme Court opinion is a setback for the integration of schools because without including individual student race in assignment policies, it is more difficult to create pupil assignment plans that yield desegregated schools.
- Parents Involved ruling alone doesn’t account for the many school districts that have not offered solutions to address racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic isolation.
- Other contributing factors to school segregation are (1) other judicial decisions regarding school desegregation, particularly Milliken (1974), prevented metropolitan area remedies to school segregation; and (2) segregated housing patterns that were influenced by personal preferences, discriminatory housing policy, and other legal decisions.
- The systematic nature of the governmental policies constructed ghettos that segregated African Americans in both Northern and Southern cities.
- The federal magnet schools program should be revised to reflect the shifting racial demographics. Doing so would necessitate making changes in the policies in order to promote racial integration.