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February 19, 2006
Move aggressively
The more solid the numbers, the more clarity: When it comes to the dismal high school graduation rates, the fault, dear students, lies not in you but in your parents' generation.
For decades, New York's adults have tolerated inequity in education funding and priorities. That has bestowed on students who happened to be born white and nondisabled, and living in wealthier school districts, a far better shot at success in life than their nonwhite and disabled peers.
And adults continue to do so. We tolerate a governor who successfully stonewalled for most his 12-year tenure resolution of a court challenge to fairly fund New York City schools. We tolerate urban school districts across the state with such inferior facilities that teachers themselves refuse to enter them. Election after election we tolerate lawmakers who do little about it.
Posted by Michelle at February 19, 2006 10:11 PM