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Jonathan Kozol, in his essay Still Separate, Still Unequal, is proposing that many Americans that live far from major cities are under the impression that racial isolation in urban public schools has steadily diminished in more recent years. But truth be told, according to Kozol thousands of schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by forced o to f law have since been rapidly resegregating. According to statistics, Kozol found that between 85 to 95 percent of students enrolled in public schools in big cities like Chicago, Washington, St. Louis and New York are black and Hispanic while only less than 10 percent are white. Kozol also express how the decay and disrepair one sees in ghetto schools "would not happen

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