Lack of diversity in my classroom

"My high school has roughly 3600 students, broken up into smaller academies. Mine is called Community Partnership Academy, or CPA. But students sometimes joke that it should be called Colored People Academy because it’s predominantly black.  I learned that the reason for creating smalls schools was to close the achievement gap between whites and minorities. My academy in particular was designed to recruit at-risk students and provide them with a smaller learning environment, something no one told me before I enrolled."  Donisha Dansby has more, in a story that first aired on KCBS, on Youth Radio.