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Brown versus Board of Education ruling banning school segregation, St. Louis was the second largest segregated school district in the country. It was 1954
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achievement gap at this time was about 40 points between black and white students
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19 points in achievement gap
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The school stayed open, but this rare event triggered a little known Missouri law called the transfer law. The transfer law gives students in unaccredited districts the right to transfer to a nearby accredited one for free. Any student in Normandy was now allowed out.
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Normandy kids go to an 85% white school because it is the closest, called Francis Howell
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By the fall of 2013, the impoverished Normandy District was sending more than a $1 million a month to whiter, wealthier ones.
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the Normandy School District was unaccredited. But the new Normandy Collaborative District was non-accredited. Now that the district was no longer unaccredited, according to the state, the 1,000 students who had escaped now had to come back.
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Black and Latino students have less access to materials
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While Normandy is falling apart, over at Francis Howell, none of the things that parents were worried about came true. No one got stabbed. Test scores did not drop-- at all. And at least so far, the influx of black students hasn't caused white parents to flee. Mah'Ria's thriving. Where the transfer law forced integration, it's working.