Desegregating schools is a tricky task, but the best source for a solution may be the ultimate stakeholders: the students. Faced with similar issues in 2019, a group of 500 teenagers in Trenton, New Jersey, got together to tackle segregation and ease racial divisions in the public school system. Like adults, they disagreed along the way.
Though segregation is illegal, New Jersey is the sixth-most segregated state in the nation for black students and seventh for Latino students. Students came up with the idea of having districts redraw boundaries to make schools more diverse.
