Reclaiming the Promise of Brown: The Integration of Desegregation & School Funding Reform

The vision embodied in Brown encompasses a commitment to racial integration, and yet, while the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of America’s schoolchildren have never been greater, entrenched resegregation of public schools has returned segregation to levels that prevailed in the early 1970s. To reverse the trends, it is important to bring together knowledge on school finance and desegregation, and to attend to the roles that race plays in these arenas.