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This is the Politics and More podcast. I'm David Remnick.

Here's a sobering fact. By many accounts, schools in America are as segregated

now as they were in the 1960s in the years just after separate but equal was declared unconstitutional.

Now, that's not true of every school, in every state, of course, but in cities and towns across the country,

white students and black and brown students are very commonly educated in entirely different worlds,

with different resources and very different outcomes.

Here in New York City, which exudes pride in its diversity and in its political liberalism, schools are among the most segregated in the nation.

In fact, in a lot of places, schools are more segregated now than 20 or 30 years ago.

How did this happen?

And what would it take finally to be together and equal?

W. What would it take finally to be together and equal? WNYC's program, the United States of Anxiety, has been taking a very close look at how those

questions have played out in one small school district, the Socelito Marin City Schools in California.

Reporter Marianne McCune began visiting the district about two years ago.

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