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Broken Promises: The Inconvenient Truth Of Apartheid In Florida's Public Schools, Sidney Moss Jan 2008

Broken Promises: The Inconvenient Truth Of Apartheid In Florida's Public Schools, Sidney Moss

HIM 1990-2015

This manuscript contains discussion and analysis of the growing number of public schools in the state of Florida that are increasingly more segregated than at the height of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Further discussion and analysis on the influence that standardized testing, like the FCAT, has on the resegregation of public schools and the economic conditions of our Florida schools are also included. Interviews, field observations, and research data are provided and illustrate the burden that high stakes testing has on Florida's K-12 public schools, its teachers, principals, and the students who attend those schools. For the …