Jul 29, 2016 12:00:00 AM
I found middle class and affluent white families organizing to limit access, taking the good teachers, in the principal’s office daily advocating that ‘my kid gets the good programs.’ Wealthy Black families would rather pay their money and send kids to private schools.Covering school integration and desegregation efforts is appropriate, he seems to be saying. But it needs to be much more nuanced. At the EWA event, he urged reporters to “look up” where education resources were being gathered and to find out how and why outcomes are so often inequitable.
Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer who currently writes at his blog, The Grade and the national news site This Week In Education He has created several long-running blogs such as District 299 (about Chicago schools) and LA School Report.
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