When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in
wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.
Not exact matches
This trend holds not
just for the
wealthier affiliated charter schools, but also for the independent charters that operate in low - income
neighborhoods.
And it isn't
just parents in the
wealthier Northwest
neighborhoods — where a high concentration of such programs are located — who want in.
In the past, I've made the argument, that if
wealthier parents would
just send their kids to the local
neighborhood schools the schools would become more diverse and everybody would benefit.