OCTOBER 25, 2010
Many south Pinellas schools continue to resegregate along racial lines, with nine of 14schools that were majority-black becoming more so this year, according to the district’s latest official counts. That's no surprise, given the return to neighborhood schools, but the numbers still reiterate how fast things have changed - and for some schools, how much more challenging things have become.
The percentage of black students this year moved from 86 percent to 90 percent at Fairmount Park Elementary, from 78 percent to 84 percent at Melrose Elementary and from 79 percent to 83 percent at Lakewood Elementary.
The biggest one-year jump came at Campbell Park Elementary, where the percentage of black students moved from 64 percent to 74 percent. In 2007, the percentage of black students at those schools was 61, 56, 59 and 47 percent, respectively. It was capped at 42 percent before that under the district's old choice plan.
| School | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| Gibbs High | 50 | 58 | 62 | 68 |
| Lakewood High | 48 | 53 | 56 | 58 |
| Bay Point Middle | 43 | 52 | 56 | 60 |
| Hopkins Middle | 43 | 49 | 56 | 59 |
| Melrose ES | 56 | 67 | 78 | 84 |
| Lakewood ES | 59 | 67 | 79 | 83 |
| Campell Park ES | 47 | 56 | 64 | 74 |
| Fairmount Park ES | 61 | 69 | 86 | 90 |
| Maximo ES | 58 | 66 | 75 | 80 |
| Sanderlin ES | 57 | 62 | 62 | 61 |
| Woodlawn ES | 38 | 42 | 60 | 60 |
| Bear Creek ES | 44 | 47 | 53 | 53 |
| Gulfport ES | 44 | 48 | 57 | 57 |
| Jamerson ES | 47 | 50 | 53 | 50 |
Posted by ronmatus at 10:48:39 am on October 25, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2) |
we should move towards "neighborhood" schools at all costs.
It worked for black schools back in the 40's and 50's before desegregation.
Let black schools and the black community have control of their own destiny. Stop relying on white people to fix all of your problems.
Florida's funding model (FEFP) is one of the best in the nation even if overall student funding is lower than we'd like. The money follows the student so blacks can't falesly claim their schools are being financially shortchanged.
I say bring in the NAACP, SCLU, CORE, URban League, Uhurus, et al an give them the funding to run their own schools and let's see how well they do?
Then we won't have to hear the constant bogus allegations of how the white man is shortchanging the blacks and how they can't get a fair deal.
I just double dare you but I bet Jansen, the lilly livers on the board and the black community are just too SCARED to do it because they know I'm right.