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Government choice policy contributes to ethnically segregated schools
Recent educational reforms have emphasised parental choice as central to the raising of standards in schools for all pupils despite nothing being known about the exercise of choice among Black and Minority ethnic parents. A new Runnymede Trust education report, the subject of a cross-party debate in the House of Commons on 4 June 2007, highlights that race does indeed impact upon parental choice. The report argues that in failing to establish how different groups exercise choice, policy reform in this area has ignored the sectors of society that it intended to benefit. Policy in this area fails to tackle ethnic segregation between young people.
The report School Choice & Ethnic Segregation: Educational Decision-making among Black and minority ethnic groups, based on interviews with parents and children across three education authorities, highlights that there are far-reaching implications for this failure to incorporate the choice making processes of parents from across all groups in policy debate and formulation. Click here to download the report (10.47MB).
