Concerns are now being expressed in Delaware that allowing charter schools to give preference to students who live within five miles of their facility is leading to the resegregration of neighborhoods.
Representative John Kowalko says that Newark Charter School with almost 2000 students is producing de facto segregation because it sits in a mostly white affluent part of the city.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Newark is the only charter school that uses the preference and will soon become a full K-through-12 facility.
The paper reports that the test scores at the school are one of the highest in the state and there is a lengthy waiting-list just to get in.
