Host Margot Adler speaks with a parent who is president of a group that is suing the Seattle School District over its use of race in assigning students to city schools.
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Kathleen Brose
is the president of Parents Involved in Community Schools, a group of parents and community members who fought against the use of a racial "tiebreaker" by public high schools in Seattle, Washington.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Lois Weis, an education professor who has studied race, class and gender in American schools, about the history of desegregation efforts.
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Law professor Charles Ogletree and Center for Individual Rights president Terrence Pell debate the role of race in deciding where students should go to school.
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Terrence J. Pell
is the president of the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative public interest law firm in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the Center for Individual Rights, he served as a deputy assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education. He has written extensively on racial preferences, quotas and affirmative action for newspapers and scholarly journals.
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Reporter Shannon Heffernan files from the city of Chicago, where the public school system is seeking to be relieved of federal supervision over its desegregation efforts.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Bob Saffold, a public education advocate, about a new family income-based assignment system being used to determine the makeup of North Carolina schools.
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Bob Saffold
is the president of the Wake Education Partnership. Previously, he worked as a classroom teacher, a school administrator and as an associate for the Public Education Network, a national association of local education funds and individuals working to advance public school reform.
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Host Margot Adler discusses how school desegregation addresses Latino populations with advocate Peter Zamora.
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Peter Zamora
is the acting Washington D.C. regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he develops federal legislative strategies regarding education law and policy, voting rights, immigration and other matters. He also serves as co-chair of the Hispanic Education Coalition, which unites national organizations in support of improved educational opportunities for Latino students and families.
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