School choice and race: How the debate affects parents – and communities
The story of an anti-school choice Chicago Teachers Union president who sent her son to private school understandably generated political backlash. As a parent who sees the viability of both public and private schools, Stacy Davis Gates’ decision made me think about the past and the present.
The first time I stepped into a schoolhouse, it was in preschool at the Minnie by one of South Carolina’s great Black educators. A short time later, in kindergarten, I attended Clara E. Jenkins Elementary, located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Hyde Park, which shares the name of a well-known neighborhood in Chicago, was later found to be in a .
