In South Carolina, where I live, rural towns often remain largely divided by race, especially those with larger Black communities. You'll often hear people describe railroad tracks that run through these towns and how white people live on one side of the tracks, Black people on the other. That's true. But I've often seen a different dividing line, a more impenetrable one. This one runs between schools: private and public ones.

Oh happy day! @propublica.org just launched a new tool that lets you look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.

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-- Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM