"THIS IS ONE THE UNFULFILLED DREAMS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR TODAY"

The Supreme Court decision on Brown vs. Board of Education legal tussle took place in 1955. Today, the public school system in America is still segregated along socioeconomic and racial lines. The current method that is used to generate revenue for the public school systems promote the principle of "separate, but not equal". Wealthy neigborhoods have more money in their school districts than poor communities, and wealthy schools are doing better on standardized tests and graduation rates, with fewer cases of disciplinary issues reported yearly, in comparison to public schools in poor neighborhoods. Most of the high schools designated as failing schools in America, and with a high rate of high school dropouts are in the inner cities of America.

According to the a recent report from the Alliance For Excellent Education, 1.2 million students fail to graduate from our high schools, and more than half of these dropouts are from minority groups. 2,000 of our nation's high schools are responsible for the production of these dropouts. Also, 80% of those high schools with these dropouts are found in the 15 states out of our 50 states and territories of the United States. Majority of these failing high schools are located in the big cities of the northern and western parts of America and in the southern states.

According to Ezra Klein, a blogger for the "Washington Post" newspaper:

American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.

For America to remain great, just and competative with the remaining industrialized nations in the 21st century, these educational anomalies must be timely addressed and corrected adequately. Majority of these high school dropouts do not go back to finish their high school diploma through the alternative avenues provided by the state governments, such as the GED Program. These dropouts are likely to live below the poverty line throughout their life, may have to fully depend of the government welfare system for life that is funded by the taxpayers, or may likely end up in the prison systems periodically or for a lifetime.

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