America’s Schools Are ‘Profoundly Unequal,’ Says U.S. Civil Rights Commission
“The 150-page report, titled ‘Public Education Funding Inequity: In An Era Of Increasing Concentration Of Poverty and Resegregation,’ reads like a footnoted walking tour through the many ways America’s education system fails vulnerable students — beginning with neighborhood schools that remain deeply segregated and continuing into classrooms where too many students lack access to skilled teachers, rigorous courses and equitable school funding.”