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Students Discuss the Impacts of Inequity
[The following is the third installment of a three-part series. Click here to read part 1, and here to read part 2.] Britney Dockery wants to be a pilot. Over the past four years, Dockery’s done everything she can to make that happen. She entered the admissions lottery for Phillip…
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How Segregation Survives in Schools
[The following is part two of a three-part series. Click here to read part one and read the next part here] As segregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools perpetuates, integration advocates keep rounding back to one root problem: the definition of a “good” school. When parents seek out indicators of a decent…
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Then and Now: Segregation in CMS Still Pervades
[The following is the first in a three-part series on segregation in schools. Read part 2 and part 3] Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been failing its students for decades. That’s the premise behind the district’s recent discussions about equity: CMS has tolerated high concentrations of poverty in its schools for too…
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