School Resegregation

Young People Standing Up for Themselves and for Our Nation

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.01.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

Our public schools are resegregating, and many of the 73 percent of black students and 78 percent of Hispanic students who still attend predominantly segregated schools continue to suffer with tattered books, crumbling school facilities and too many teachers with low expectations for them.

North Carolina School Board Debate Over Potential Resegregation Sparks Fiery Protests

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

RALEIGH, N.C. — Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would re...

The Dangerous Drift Back Towards Segregated Schools

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marian Wright Edelman

Two recent decisions by school boards in North Carolina are local signs of a troubling national trend towards resegregation in public schools. In New ...

More Threats to School Diversity

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marian Wright Edelman

I recently wrote about new challenges to school integration in two North Carolina school districts. The South has been the region that made the most p...

So We Can't Have Single Payer for Health Care, But How About Single Payer for Education?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna Huffington

To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just.  READ MORE

Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform?   One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government.  Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger.  If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE

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