Continuing Conversation on School Segregation
On September 24th a group of concerned citizens will gather in West Windsor, New Jersey and discuss school segregation. The audience will consist of politicians, clergy, scholars, attorneys, activists, educators and parents. Passionate voices will fill the meeting place and the congregation will demand justice. Several solutions and potential solutions will be offered before the session is adjourned. People will leave with hope, feeling a sense of satisfaction. However, in spite of the best intentions, the importance of this event will be lost on the majority of the state's residents who will not know or care about such things. For in New Jersey, you see, school segregation is a problem or it isn't. While I want to suggest that New Jersey is like any other state, it actually is very different from most of the other 49. The Garden State ranks in the top five in school funding, school expenditures, school performance, and high school graduation. It also ranks in the top six in...