Two Marin schools forced to integrate after years of segregation and battles for funding

After years of bitter feuds over funding and segregation, the Sausalito Marin City School District will merge its controversial charter school with its largely Black traditional public school, in what will be the state’s first mandated school desegregation effort in 50 years.

The unification plan, which will create a K-8 school across the two campuses this fall, will combine two disparate school communities sharing the same ZIP code, but divided by race, income and Highway 101.

On one side is Sausalito, a 92% white community known for its restaurants, art galleries, houseboats and luxury homes overlooking San Francisco Bay, where the median income is $112,000 and a district charter school serves 346 K-8 students.

On the other is Marin City, where African American shipbuilders settled during World War II, a community that’s 60% people of color with a public housing complex and a median income of $45,841, where a traditional public school serves 111 K-8 students.

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