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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Schools do not need to be intergrated with [b]UMC white kids [/b]to be "better" but it certainly helps a school to [b]get an adequate share of resources and effective teachers when there is a critical mass of UMC white kids at a school.[/b] Brown v. Board of Education was not just about the social impact of de jure segregation it was a recognition that that [b]integration was the only way black children would have access to the same resources as white children.[/b][/quote]

I sense that you might be writing from your desk in another state.  Am I right?  The bolded — generally, that white kids get more re$ource$ than black kids in a school system — is exactly what I learned in college and law school in the Midwest.  I also liked to quote [i]Brown[/i] when younger.

In the [u]District,[/u] which is the only location we're talking about on this thread, the majority black schools get a lion's share of the resources from DCPS compared to the handful of schools with a majority white, UMC population.  Per pupil spending isn't even close between the two categories.  And that's always been the case, or at least, since the time where majority-white/UMC schools existed in D.C. and Title I came to be.

Again, I'm not speaking to St. Paul or Omaha.  Just the District of Columbia.[/quote]

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