Putting White Parents on the Frontlines of School Integration
“In many United States cities, enrollment in urban public schools is dominated by kids from lower-income households, often black and Latino. More affluent white urbanites who’ve moved to gentrifying city neighborhoods often send their children to private or charter schools, because of fears about underperforming local public schools—and the predominantly non-white kids who attend them. ‘If you could just get white liberals to live their values,’ Hannah-Jones said, ‘you could have a significant amount of integration.’”