New+Designs+DI Aff

U.S. schools still face rampant segregation --- reviving __federal intervention__ is critical to reverse the trend
Scott, 16 --- Ranking Member on the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the US House of Representatives (5/19/16, Bobby, “America's schools are still segregated by race and class. That has // Thanks //// in large part to federal intervention // in the decades following Brown, students experienced indisputable academic and social benefits inherent to racially and socioeconomically diverse learning environments to end,”

Inequality kills tens of thousands each year
Bezruchka, ‘14 — Senior Lecturer in Health Services and Global Health at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, holds a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Stanford University (“Inequality Kills,” Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality, Edited by David Cay Johnston, p.194-195)

Desegregation is necessary to increase critical thinking, cooperative learning, reduce income inequality and break down racial division APA 12, Presidential Task Force on Educational Disparities. (2012). “Ethnic and racial disparities in education: Psychology’s contributions to understanding and reducing disparities”, pg online@

Education is key – it’s a central starting point to resolve multiple sources of inequality
Ireland, PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016

Corydon, 2/15/2016, The costs of inequality: Education’s the one key that rules them all, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/the-costs-of-inequality-educations-the-one-key-that-rules-them-all

Plan
====Thus we propose the following plan: The United States federal government, via Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, should substantially increase regulations on K-12 schools that receive public funding by implementing a law to address racial segregation in public education.====