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In theory, some of the money could have been used for desegregation. It really is a tragedy that there was no big purpose to which this money was put.

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Desegregating Newark schools means integrating the schools in the surrounding suburbs, and the parents will fight it. They simply don't want their children educated alongside minorities.

Desegregating Newark schools also means packing kids onto a bus each morning for a long bus ride. Then a long bus ride home. And if a parent needs to be there, it's no longer a walk to the neighborhood school, but more likely a trip on public transit.

I'd prefer just giving each poor school an extra $5000 per pupil per year, directly to the principal or the parent/teacher group.

Please, write the next check. Mark wrote the first.

That's odd because there are tons of Asians at their schools.

Asians and Indians don't count as minorities for purposes of the all important diversity narrative. Don't make that mistake too many times or the internet vigilantes will ruin you.

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