NJ is the sixth-most-segregated state for Black students and the seventh-most-segregated for Latinos in the U.S., according to a study cited by plaintiffs. Almost half of the state's Black and Latino students attend public schools that are 90% non-white.
The nonprofits, which include the Latino Action Network, NAACP New Jersey and the Urban League of Essex County, sued the state in 2018, alleging New Jersey’s schools are unconstitutionally segregated and among the least racially balanced in the country.
New Jersey is the sixth-most-segregated state for Black students and the seventh-most-segregated for Latinos in the country, according to a“More than anything it is about the children who attend those schools,” Lustberg told Mercer County Judge Robert Lougy. There is no magic number or bright-line rule out of which integration or segregation can be pinpointed, even with respect to just one district or community.The state, which was represented by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, said the enrollment numbers in the complaint aren't enough to prove segregation.
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