Last week, Brown v Board of Education celebrated its 60th anniversary. Despite the historical victory, school segregation still remains an issue. The Civil Rights Project at UCLA discovered that Latino students in California are more racially segregated than ever. 

However, the west coast isn't alone. Camden, Philadelphia, and New York are also on the list as having the most segregated schools among students of color. 

 "Districts where you have all black and Latino kids, who have no middle class, will have a larger segregation in this country than you had in the 1960s," said Dr. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, founder of LEAP Academy University Charter School, during a live interview with Al Dia News. 

Researchers analyzed more than 10,000 schools and concluded that poverty among children of color, especially African American and Latino students, has increased within the last decade.  As a result, they are isolated in schools with lower graduation rates, less availability of college prep courses, overuse of suspensions and populated with less inexperienced teachers. All of the these factors combined, create an achievement gap among both racial groups. 

Latinos on average attended schools that had 54 percent of white students in 1970 but now attend schools that are 84 percent non-white, according to the study. The percentage is even less for African Americans, who attend school with less than 10 percent of white classmates. 

"The playing field in California is profoundly uneven," Gary Orfield, co-author of the study said. "How can a student who grows up in a family with fewer resources, in a neighborhood that has fewer educational activities, attends a less demanding school with fewer teachers and a more limited curriculum have a fair chance to compete with students who face none of these inequalities?" 

In comparison,  more than 40 percent of Asian American and white students attend schools that rank in the top 20 percent of academic performance.  

Finding also showed that Latino and African American youth in poverty attend the same disadvantaged schools together resulting in double and even triple segregation by race, income and language. The typical black student in California today attends a school with more than twice the amount of Latinos, making them a minority in a school dominated by another disadvantaged group, the study reported. 

"African American students actually are typically attending schools that are isolated from whites and Asians, isolated from the middle class, but in schools that are predominantly Latino, which raises lots of sensitive issues that have not really been well addressed," Orfield told the Daily News.