“Black Flight”
Holly Hacker and Tawnell Hobbs at the Dallas Morning News report on “black flight” from Dallas schools.
This is the quick summary, but you should read the whole thing:
Specifically, black parents most often mentioned the following reasons:
•The perception that Dallas ISD schools offer an inferior education compared with suburban schools, and that the school system is too big and impersonal.
•As Dallas ISD educates a growing number of Hispanic students, many of whom are poor and learning English, some black parents say the district no longer focuses on their children.
•The desire of middle-class blacks to live in bigger, newer, more comfortable homes in the suburbs, away from big-city crime and congestion.
•A growing number of charter schools, which are public schools run by private groups.
•Many of Dallas’ traditionally black neighborhoods are aging, and young Hispanic families are moving in to replace them and having children.
Tomorrow they’ll run the second half of the report: “Some civil rights leaders who once battled for equal education in Dallas schools are now urging black parents to send their kids elsewhere.”
I can’t help wondering what James Coleman would think of all this.
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