‘White flight’ in Boulder, Colorado. Schools becoming segregated as many select other options

“The neighborhood around Columbine Elementary School is 87 percent Anglo. But enrollment numbers indicate that many neighborhood kids are going elsewhere. This year, the school in northeast Boulder is 82 percent Hispanic.

“Most of the parents who are involved in this would not say they were (engaged in) ‘white flight’ - they were simply choosing options that were better for their children,” says Julie Phillips, who stepped down in November as Boulder school board president….”

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