[NIFL-POVRACELIT:367] Rethinking Schools--New Study

From: Mary Ann Corley (macorley1@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 15:09:10 EST


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FYI:  Rethinking Schools has announced a new study: "Separate and Unequal."
According to a Rethinking Schools announcement, this study documents how the
school funding system in Wisconsin shortchanges students of color. As the
percentage of students of color in the Milwaukee school district has risen
during the past 20 years, the district has fallen further and further behind
the funding levels enjoyed by nearby white-majority districts.

This report is especially important in light of the recent court decision
declaring that New York's inequitable school funding system has created
serious civil rights issues for students of color in that state.  Milwaukee,
which serves most of the students of color in Wisconsin, has fallen victim
to many of the same funding  inequities, and many other big cities
nationwide are in the same boat.

You can download the entire 60-page report--or highlights from it--in pdf
format from http://www.rethinkingschools.org.


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Mary Ann Corley
Director, National Center for
 Literacy and Social Justice
macorley1@earthlink.net



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