segregated education

Since the Civil Rights Movement, the United States has came very far concerning equality among the countries different races, which is a great achievement in the countries history. However, there is one aspect of American culture that I can think of in which the races are not equal. Education in the United States is still very much segregated.
I am from the north shore of Chicago and went to a private high school. However, all the public schools in my area are fantastic and just as competitive as any other high schools in the country. Unfortunately, the same can not be said for inner city schools. These students are at an enormous disadvantage in so many ways. It is very sad to see, but many inner city public school students lack the necessary funds for computers, textbooks, and in many cases, teachers. It is completely unfair that the suburban public high schools (mostly white) are so much better off than their inner city counterparts (mostly black and hispanic). I believe it to be the most unacceptable part of our society today.
My studies in South Africa has shown me a very similar aspect to education during the Apartheid period. The idea of Bantu education was introduced to give further advantages to the white Europeans in the country. The Hector Pieterson Museum showed me the reality of this idea, and I was disgusted.
Obviously, schools during this period were segregated. However, the two different sides of schooling were drastically different. The idea behind Bantu education was to teach children in a way that would help their potential careers. Whites were taught everything important in the reality of the world, in other words, everything necessary for a student to learn in school. On the other end of the spectrum, blacks were taught the bare minimum. They were taught how to work with their hands and other similar aspects of life. This idea further disadvantaged black students. Blacks in this school system could not be expected to ever be successful in the real world.
Fortunately, with the end of Apartheid, blacks were able to end this horrible fate and now receive equal education across the country. However, this came at an enormous cost. When this idea was put into action, black students had an uprising because this was completely unacceptable. This uprising forced many students and families to sacrifice so much, such as their lives. These martyrs, in the end, proved to be very meaningful to South Africa.
I find Bantu education to be the exact equivalent to the public school system in the United States. Inner city students can not be expected to reach the level of suburban public school students. In many cases, they can not even be expected to graduate high school, let alone graduate at a 12th grade level or go to college. The end of Bantu education has given me hope and I would love to see the United States public school system show some equality in the future.