The grants come as the administration works to make inroads with Black voters.
In a speech on Friday, President Joe Biden announced new grants aimed at further desegregating magnet schools, as he marked the 70th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that desegregated public schools.
The Education Department earlier this week released a report that found there remain gaps in education among Black and Latino students and their white counterparts in high school math, science and computer science."After Brown vs. Board decision, the public schools gradually -- and often much too slowly -- were integrated. Graduation rates for Black and Latino students increased significantly though," Biden said.
Biden also said that before his remarks on Friday he met with the "Little Rock Nine," the children who first integrated their district's public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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