Janell Ross from NBC News says that there’s a more pressing truth than the reports about the school Hyde Smith attended. Effective segregation is still a problem in public schools, which are home to about 90% of the nation’s students, nearly 65 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all schools must be integrated. While private schools can be described as being highly diverse, most public schools are shaped by policies that have reversed the integration gains made following the Supreme Court’s Brown V. Board of Education decision. According to The Civil Rights Project, University of California, Los Angeles, a 2014 analysis of American schools by The Civil Rights Project found that integration has declined in America’s public schools to levels last seen in 1967. The center’s findings did not change after they updated the report in 2016. Ross’ complete NBC article is here.