Editorial: Sausalito shamefully segregated its school district. Itโ€™s not the only one

Sausalito Marin City school district Board of Trustees president Ida Green (l to r) and California attorney general Xavier Becerra shake hands after a press conference at Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, where it was announced that the Sausalito Marin City School District agrees to end segregation in its schools on Friday, August 9, 2019 in Sausalito, Calif.
Sausalito Marin City school district Board of Trustees president Ida Green (l to r) and California attorney general Xavier Becerra shake hands after a press conference at Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, where it was announced that the Sausalito Marin City School District agrees to end segregation in its schools on Friday, August 9, 2019 in Sausalito, Calif.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle

Attorney General Xavier Becerra has completed a two-year investigation into the Sausalito Marin City School District. The shocking results of his findings sound like something out of the South in the 1950s.

Not only did the school districtโ€™s leaders deliberately segregate the predominately white students of Sausalito from the predominately African American and Latino students of Marin City, but the desegregation plan itโ€™s being forced to undertake now will be overseen by both the attorney generalโ€™s office and an independent monitor.

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