This morning’s Washington Post features a superb front page story on policies in a small Mississippi school district to segregate students – and the efforts of the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice to stop it.  But as I note in a guest blogpost for Washington Post columnist Valerie Strauss’s “The Answer Sheet,” the DOJ’s action to fight de jure segregation stands in stark contrast to Obama’s Education Department’s failure to address the much larger issue of de facto (residential based) school segregation by race and class. Continue Reading on the Taking Note blog.