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No Superman in suburbia
- 02-24-2011
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Blog by Amy Stuart Wells/Huffington Post
Last month, during National School Choice Week, Kelley Williams-Bolar of Akron, Ohio emerged from jail after serving a nine-day sentence for choosing to send her two daughters out of their inner-city school district to a public school in the neighboring suburban Copley-Fairlawn district. Following a long investigation, indictment and a four-day jury trial, the black, single mother was convicted on two felony counts of falsifying her residence records. In a similar case, two boys who live in Baltimore were kicked out of the suburban school they were attending and their mother is being forced to pay back tuition to the district even though she was in the process of renting a place to live in the suburb. As these two cases garner more media attention, more stories are emerging of suburban school districts setting up elaborate and often expensive border patrols to keep urban students out. (more...)
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