Joanne Yatvin, already possessing superhero status for her minority report in response to the NRP, posted this letter to the NYT after another misguided editorial about what teachers can or cannot do:

Nicholas D. Kristof reads America’s problems backward in declaring, “We can’t fight poverty without reforming education.” The fact is, we can’t reform education without fighting poverty. Disabled schools are just one product of governments at all levels that fail to provide impoverished families and communities with the resources to raise and educate children successfully.