An eye-opener for a journalist who goes back to school

Stacy's trip back to Buffalo was an eye-opener: schools tipping back to 80 percent non-white, high-performing selective schools serving a majority-white student body, and conditions leading to a civil rights complaint.

But Stacy will tell you that there are some bright spots in Buffalo as well, such as rising test scores and graduation rates.

I recently asked Stacy what prompted her to return to Buffalo to visit her old school district decades later.

Reports on Buffalo surfaced as I was researching the resegregation of schools nationwide, and even earlier, about civil rights and equity issues in urban areas. When I looked a little more closely at the history of successful integration in Buffalo, I realized that it started when I was in kindergarten there, and reached its peak around the time I graduated from high school.