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For her dissertation, Ph.D. candidate and ISERP graduate fellow Ansley Erickson is investigating school busing in Nashville as it pertains to desegregation and rezoning initiatives. Historically, Nashville desegregation efforts involved transporting black students significant distances to predominantly white schools. Buses transported white students too, but at a far lower frequency. During the research process, Ansley has found such inequity in busing stems from intentional redistribution of schooling in metropolitan areas. A stark imbalance between the number of schools in suburban areas and the number of schools in urban areas reflects a larger trend of racial inequality. The school redistribution strongly favors the suburban areas, which are mostly white. As the battle over school rezoning rages on today, it becomes clear that the problem of education inequity that faced Nashville forty years ago are far from resolved. ...
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