Gen X: The last generation of school racial integration

Gen X attended the most racially integrated school system in U.S. history before the Supreme Court dropped decrees and schools resegregated, an Axios review of federal data shows.The big picture: On the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, Axios found that the nation’s schools today have grown more separate and unequal, but during Gen X’s education, schools were moving in a different direction. The 1954 Brown ruling banned separating schoolchildren by race, but its full effects weren’t felt until the 1980s and early 1990s when districts finally…