The Morris School District in New Jersey (Morris district, or MSD) may offer such a path. We desperately need to find a way to do better at meeting Brown’s clarion call and the demands of an increasingly diverse and interconnected world.
Still, the reality on the ground is that the rapidly increasing Hispanic student population has joined black and white students in their educational isolation. As the white and black student population percentages have declined, and the Hispanic and Asian percentages have increased, the concept of diversity and the meaning of school integration have shifted.
3ĭemographic changes in the nation and in many states have made the picture more complicated, but no less bleak. In fact, schools in northern and midwestern states such as New York, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey have consistently been the most severely segregated. School districts in northern and western states never were substantially affected by Brown’s desegregation mandate because of the Supreme Court’s unwillingness to make Brown a truly national requirement. School districts in some southern states that had made impressive progress under federal court oversight have seen their schools re-segregate as the courts have pulled back and even called into question the legality of voluntary desegregation plans.
Indeed, recent evidence indicates the problem has been worsening. Board of Education, 1 the nation is still wrestling with how to integrate our schools. More than sixty-two years after the United States Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. The Morris model has proven the educational benefits of diversity to all students, white as well as black and Hispanic, upper-income as well as lower income.A recent influx in Hispanic students-reflecting a demographic shift schools are experiencing across the state and the country-has challenged MSD to revamp its English Language Learners (ELL) instruction and outreach, particularly to Spanish-speaking parents.MSD’s 2014–15 demographic profile is 52 percent white students, 11 percent black, 32 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian, and 35 percent receiving free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL, that is, low-income) against a New Jersey state profile of 47 percent white, 16 percent black, 26 percent Hispanic, 9 percent Asian, and 38 percent FRPL.It is the only school district in New Jersey and in the United States to have been birthed in this way. The Morris School District (MSD) was formed as the result of a forced merger of two New Jersey districts brought about by the 1971 Supreme Court decision, Jenkins v.5Recommendations for the Morris District.3Analysis and Discussion of the Successes and Failures of the MSD Effort.2A Case Study of the Morris School District as a Remedial Model.1The New Jersey Context and the Creation of the Morris School District.
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