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I’m writing a paper rn on school re-segregation in my hometown and man this shit is SO BAD. What do you mean we went from 10 racially & economically isolated (75%+ minority and 75%+ on free lunch) schools in 2002 to fucking SEVENTY-FIVE in 2017?My city Philly is physically redlined like crazy. Vine St. Expressway is still not capped and they plowed through miles of predominantly black neighborhoods to separate it from Chinatown. Our racial isolation is only decreasing short-term from gentrification and long-term it’ll end up displacing tons of black families. Our disgrace of a mayor almost plowed Chinatown for a basketball arena for a dogshit team, and the state illegally underfunds school districts in poor areas