Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Nationally, critical race theory was in the news.
56% : Seventy years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, segregation in schools persists, not as a matter of law but as a reflection of underlying disparities.
55% : (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Seventy years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling, segregation persists, not as a matter of law but as a reflection of underlying disparities, including in housing.
50% : The school is just a block from the former Monroe school which was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling ending segregation in public schools 70 years ago.

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