The conviction jump - started the much - needed discussion over expanding inter-district public school choice and forced a new discussion about ending zip code education practices that
condemn poor and minority children to the worst American public education offers (and keeps middle - class families from improving their own options).
Around this time last year, Dropout Nation applauded Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's effort to expand the state's inter-district choice program — and end the practices of Zip Code Education that
condemn poor and minority children to dropout factories — by requiring every district to open their doors to any student anywhere.
Not exact matches
Thanks to AYP, traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high - quality teaching, curricula,
and school cultures to
poor and minority children (as well as those
condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).
If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No
Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula,
and school cultures to
poor and minority children (as well as those
condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).