There is a growing trend of creating 'racially identifiable' schools

From The Washington Post:

[There is a trend of creating "racially identifiable" schools leading toward] racial isolation that has been underway for years in American schools and has undermined the historic school integration efforts of the civil rights era.

More than half a century after courts dismantled the legal framework that enforced segregation, Obama administration officials are investigating an array of practices across the country that contribute to a present-day version that they say is no less insidious.

Although minority students have the legal right to attend any school, federal officials are questioning whether in practice many receive less access than white students to the best teachers, college prep courses and other resources. Department of Education lawyers also are investigating whether minority students are being separated into special education classes without justification, whether they are being disciplined more harshly and whether districts are failing to provide adequate English language programs for students who are not fluent, among other issues.

Studies have shown schools drifting back into segregation since the 1980s, when the federal government became less aggressive in its enforcement. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that school districts cannot make racial balance a policy goal unless . . . they are attempting to comply with a federal desegregation order. [And the Department of Justice is still monitoring more than 200 mostly Southern school districts for compliance with desegregation orders dating to the 1960s and '70s, these being districts that have not obtained what is known as unitary status.]