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Rural Alabama charter opens as first integrated school in Sumter County
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 14, 2018 07:34pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Trisha Powell Crain |
| News Date | Monday, August 13, 2018 07:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | At 7:50 on Monday morning, when school started at the University Charter School in Livingston, in west Alabama's Sumter County, students in kindergarten through eighth grade began a new era, hardly aware of the history they were making.
For the first time, black students and white students are learning side-by-side in integrated public school classrooms. More than half of the school's 300-plus students are black, while just under half are white.
While not fully representative of the county's split---76 percent black, 24 percent white, no public school in the county has come close to reaching the percentage at UCS, according to historical enrollment documents. |
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