The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a follow-up to a report on the same subject supplemented by new data from 2010-2015. This release of this report has been dutifully covered by N.J. traditional media outlets (see the Star-Ledger, NJ Spotlight,, NJ Today) by reciting a few talking points: N.J. is more diverse than it used to be — there’s a “remarkable increase in the proportion of students attending multiracial schools over the past twenty-five years” — but we’re still the sixth most segregated school system in the nation; one-fourth of Black students attend schools where enrollment is 90 percent non-white; the Abbott rulings, which direct vast amounts of money towards 31 poor districts, (some no longer poor) erased funding inequities (um, not really) but did nothing to integrate schools;