I didn’t quite understand why the School District of Philadelphia has finally decided to settle the forty year old desegregation case. Then I saw this piece: <\/p>\n
The agreement pledges the district will provide additional resources, better teachers and improved building maintenance to remedy years of neglect in the city’s lowest-performing schools<\/em>.<\/p>\n Those schools are also what the court termed “racially isolated” schools, or schools at least 90 percent African-American and Latino, officials said.<\/p>\n Okay, no surprise here in the racially isolated schools: that number has probably been between 60 and 70% since the mid-1960s. And if you add in all the schools in the Northeast that are racially isolated as well, it’s an even higher number. <\/p>\n What I think Ackerman is trying to do is use this decision alongside Act 46 to break the union in the low-performing schools. She wants to get the right to disregard work rules (something the SRC seems in favor of) and this court decision and the 2001 legislation will provide partial political cover to do so… <\/p>\n That’s cynical. Wow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t quite understand why the School District of Philadelphia has finally decided to settle the forty year old desegregation case. Then I saw this piece: The agreement pledges the district will provide additional resources, better teachers and improved building maintenance to remedy years of neglect in the city’s lowest-performing schools. Those schools are also … Continue reading I get it<\/span>