Urban school districts are among least integrated. Meanwhile, ... Bethune, a school in the Near North neighborhood of Minneapolis, has 95 percent minority enrollment.

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Overhauling a Major Urban School System In 1998, the San Diego City Schools launched one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts in school reform. Superintendent Alan Bersin, former U.S. Attorney ...

Media Urban charter schools bode success for low-income, non-Whites, college enrollment: Report 'These are school models that can change young people's lives,' said Sarah Cohodes, associate ...

Nearly half of the state's 163 "F" schools are in the two largest urban school districts, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Those districts educate nearly 13 percent of the state's public school students.