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Integration Politics Reveals the Progressive Cure for Racism: More Racism
As a third-grader, Linda Brown walked through the cold, across railroad tracks and then to a bus each morning to get to school. “I remember walking, tears freezing up on my face because I began to cry because it was so cold, and many times I had to turn around and run...
LAWSUIT: Connecticut Parents Union Sues Over Racial Quotas in Magnet Schools
Imagine for a moment a Black mother attempting to enroll her son in a local, high-performing magnet school with open spots, only to be wait-listed and denied one of the open seats due to the fact that they were reserved for white students. Seems hard to believe that...
Let’s Stop Pitting Charter School and District Parents Against Each Other, and Start Valuing Their Right to Choose Schools
I’ll never forget the interaction with a parent of two boys who came to a school closure meeting to have her say about our district’s plan to shutter what looked like a failing school. I was suit-and-tie school board member full of school reform vigor. She was a...
While We’re Obsessed with White People in Blackface the Nation’s Schools Are Killing Black Minds
Another day, another politician with blackface in his past. If you are keeping track, three top elected officials in Virginia have been busted for old photos showing them engaging in blackface. Let’s put gas in the outrage machine and crank it up. Here’s a question...
