Right now, you could argue that we have de facto segregation in many schools, like we have in New York City.

NPR: Is Segregation Undermining NYC Schools?

Although deliberate segregation is no longer an issue, demographic trends and white flight to rich suburbs keep pushing in the direction of a de facto segregation of schools.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court looks again at race in schools

He lucidly and tenaciously chronicles how government and business reinforced de-facto segregation and did nothing to stop the collapse of the metropolitan job base, and shows that, once Pruitt-Igoe was up and running, there was little public money available to maintain it.

NEWYORKER: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth