03.07.2017 - By WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Metro Milwaukee has a segregation problem -- not least, within area schools. Over time, racial lines have been created here , dividing the area into distinct black, white and Latino neighborhoods. As a result, many local schools have also become segregated -- or re-segregated, according to researcher Marc Levine . “The rate of black students attending what some education researchers call ‘near apartheid schools’ - 90 percent minority schools - in Milwaukee, is exactly the same as it was in the