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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you post the email?  Why would they be requesting this?[/quote]

E-MAIL: "See the NYT op-ed piece "Romney's School Surprise" by James E. Ryan. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/romneys-school-surprise/. Ryan is a law professor at U Va. The piece identifies "the real source of educational inequality in this country: school district boundaries, which wall off good school systems from failing ones." This is a jurisdictional variation of intra-district school assignment policies that separate kids by wealth.
 
As the little squib at the bottom of the piece notes, Ryan wrote the 2010 book "Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America." Here's a paragraph from the book:
 
"In short, integrated schools are superior to segregated ones both as a matter of education policy and as a matter of political strategy. Integrated schools offer more potential for educational oportunities to be equal, adequate, and full. Students who attend racially diverse and predominantly middle-income schools have a greater chance at succeeding academically than those who attend high-poverty, high-minority schools. And all students who attend diverse schools have an opportunity to obtain a fuller and richer education than those who attend schools isolated by race, class, and ethnicity. There is no guarantee that students in integrated schools will receive all of these benefits, but the potential is there in a way that is not in segregated schools. At the same time, integration along lines of race and class can reshape the politics of edcuational opportunty by linking the fate of politically weak families and that of politically powerful ones." 
 
So, not to be too intellectual about it, what can we do? Email boe@mcpsmd.org and Joshua_Starr@mcpsmd.org. Ask them to change assignment policy to maximize integration by race, ethnicity and class."[/quote]

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