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1954, Brown vs Board of Education
Brown versus Board of Education ruling banning school segregation, St. Louis was the second largest segregated school district in the country. It was 1954 -
Period: to
Massive De-Segregation
achievement gap at this time was about 40 points between black and white students -
Height of Integration
19 points in achievement gap -
Normandy loses accreditation from Missouri
The school stayed open, but this rare event triggered a little known Missouri law called the transfer law. The transfer law gives students in unaccredited districts the right to transfer to a nearby accredited one for free. Any student in Normandy was now allowed out. -
2013 Missouri Integrates unintentionally due to transfer law
Normandy kids go to an 85% white school because it is the closest, called Francis Howell -
Fall 2013
By the fall of 2013, the impoverished Normandy District was sending more than a $1 million a month to whiter, wealthier ones. -
July 29, 2014
the Normandy School District was unaccredited. But the new Normandy Collaborative District was non-accredited. Now that the district was no longer unaccredited, according to the state, the 1,000 students who had escaped now had to come back. -
2014
Black and Latino students have less access to materials -
Where Transfer Law Forced Integration, It Worked
While Normandy is falling apart, over at Francis Howell, none of the things that parents were worried about came true. No one got stabbed. Test scores did not drop-- at all. And at least so far, the influx of black students hasn't caused white parents to flee. Mah'Ria's thriving. Where the transfer law forced integration, it's working.