Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation — and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities. We found these ...

The recently passed 131-page Omnibus bill contained additional money to help victims of Hurricane Helene, but that was only a small portion of the bill. It contained dramatic changes to state ...

Gov. Kristi Noem presents her annual budget address to lawmakers in the South Dakota State Capitol on Dec. 3, 2024, while Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden looks on. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) To ...

Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

A ProPublica report found that segregation academies in the South highlight how the conservative push for “school choice” aims to resegregate schools. A Washington Post-Ipsos survey indicates that a ...

ProPublica is very concerned. It has found something that is, as the cool kids say, problematic. Another way of describing this is that any old argument is being used to oppose school vouchers, ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many in the school systems ...

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in ...

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...