Why school choice is essential to ensuring racial equality
President Joe Biden’s vision of renewed unity among Americans can never be achieved without education equity for students of color.
Lenny McAllister
Opinion contributor
As Americans, we pride ourselves on an inherent ability to make our own choices and manage our own lives. That self-determination is a foundational tenet of our democracy, something we guard jealously.
Except in public education.
Over the course of our nation’s history, public education has never truly been a place where everyone is empowered to manage their own lives. And this is especially true for low-income families and for Black and brown students.
In areas where schools are chronically underperforming and families have little education choice, there are also fewer living-wage jobs and the school-to-prison pipeline flows all too freely.
This is why education equity remains the civil rights issue of our time.
President Joe Biden’s vision of renewed unity among America’s diverse population can never be achieved without education equity for students of color as a cornerstone of public policy. Education is the most reliable route out of poverty and has always been a prerequisite for justice, fairness and opportunity in America.
Education equity is the bridge from where we are to where we want to be as a nation.
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Lenny McAllister
Opinion contributor
As Americans, we pride ourselves on an inherent ability to make our own choices and manage our own lives. That self-determination is a foundational tenet of our democracy, something we guard jealously.
Except in public education.
Over the course of our nation’s history, public education has never truly been a place where everyone is empowered to manage their own lives. And this is especially true for low-income families and for Black and brown students.
In areas where schools are chronically underperforming and families have little education choice, there are also fewer living-wage jobs and the school-to-prison pipeline flows all too freely.
This is why education equity remains the civil rights issue of our time.
President Joe Biden’s vision of renewed unity among America’s diverse population can never be achieved without education equity for students of color as a cornerstone of public policy. Education is the most reliable route out of poverty and has always been a prerequisite for justice, fairness and opportunity in America.
Education equity is the bridge from where we are to where we want to be as a nation.
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