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What Could Reverse D.C'.s Intense School Segregation?

Not more charter schools
Source: Maria Danilova / AP

Last week, a group of Washington, D.C., parents and teachers stopped Betsy DeVos, the new secretary of education, from entering a D.C. middle school. Several conservative pundits compared DeVos, an outspoken , to Vivian Malone and James Hood, the black students from entering the University of Alabama by segregationists in 1963. The parallel, however, is somewhat problematic, since one of the things the D.C. parents were rallying against was segregation: The protester Betsy Wolf she was there to ensure that DeVos “not do things to further the inequity and school segregation that already exists.”

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