Our Segregated Schools:
Shining Daylight on the history of
Segregation in our Mid-Peninsula Schools
This website aims to collect, maintain, and present information about school segregation from San Carlos through Palo Alto from 1940 to present.
It is a work in progress. Sources I have found are included in the bibliography. If you have other information for me to include, please contact me at KristinAkerHowellATgmailDOTcom. I am still learning.
Why Are Our Schools Segregated?
There is no law creating segregation by race in our public schools from San Carlos through Palo Alto. Yet, there is a Settlement requiring desegregation of those schools that has been in effect since 1986. Only Redwood City Schools have met the criteria set forth to exit the Tinsley Desegregation Settlement requirements in the last forty years. That requirement is 60 percent students of color within school district boundaries.
Our schools - and our neighborhoods too - are segregated because of a series of decisions made at evening meetings. When the racist nature of those decisions was called out, we have a history of offering crumbs instead of accepting the change that comes with the solutions offered.
This website attempts to highlight these actions - these crumbs - that have enabled segregation and the educational inequities that come with it to continue in most of our schools for decades.
