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Open in new tab As a result of declining white population because of flight to the suburbs, black and Puerto Rican students were segregated in under-resourced schools. In the 1950s and 1960s, as in many other redlined cities in the country, bussing as a remedy to integrate schools was virulently opposed. Education reform could not solve the fundamental problems of racial and economic disparity redlining had created. As a result, the New York City school system is now the most racially segregated in the country.