Just about the last thing they want is choice programs that would open their schools to the children in failing urban schools. (educationnext.org)
The noble goal was to give poor children trapped in failing urban schools another option. (host.madison.com)
«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.» (educationnext.org)