"Across most indicators a wide gap in opportunity or outcomes exists by race and income," according to the report "One Minneapolis: A vision for our city's success" commissioned by The Minneapolis Foundation and released today.

The report shows "pervasive" racial disparities in education, housing, jobs and other measures in the community, according to Minneapolis Foundation President Sandra Vargas, who called it "shocking."....

The 59-page "Community Indicators" report (scroll down to download a complete copy) opens with Minneapolis-at-a-glance graphics displaying these stats:

• About 60 percent of Minneapolis residents are white and non-Hispanic while the remaining 40 percent are persons of color.
• Further, 15 percent of the city's 382,578 residents are foreign-born.
• Children from Somali homes are significantly more prepared to start kindergarten than those from homes where Spanish is spoken, although Hispanic children are less likely to live in poverty than Asian, American Indian, and Black children.
• More than half of the city's American Indian, Asian and black children live in poverty.
• Black children living in poverty "vastly" outnumber children of other races in the same economic situation.
• American Indian students of all groups are least likely to graduate from high school after four years, to go directly to post-secondary education or be employed, compared with other racial and ethnic groups.
• African-American students test only slightly more proficient in reading in third grade than black pupils who are English Language Learners.
• Only 52 percent of school-age white children residing in the city in 2009 were enrolled in Minneapolis Public Schools, compared with three-fourths of children of color. One-third of the school-age group attends alternative schools or has dropped out.