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“Barriers like the achievement gap are rooted in slavery, then segregation, and then mismanaged integration. In Reardon’s research, parents’ income, their education, and the degree of segregation in the neighborhoods they live in predict a large part of their children’s test scores. These barriers are unknowingly upheld by the people who thrive in the system that perpetuates them.” — Education Week
“But Asian Americans have never been silent. They have long been vocal about injustices — from resistance to racist immigration laws, anti-Chinese purges and lynchings to fighting against Japanese American incarceration, organizing labor strikes, advocating for civil rights and protesting against war, imperialism and police brutality.” — NBC News
“A Chicago Sun-Times analysis of CPS data last year found students who attend a high school with an officer were four times more likely to have the police called on them, with Black and special education students most likely to face police intervention. After Black and Brown students described their fear of police, city officials left the decision to individual high schools — dozens of which chose to keep their cops — and the Board of Education renewed its multimillion-dollar contract with CPD.” — Chicago Sun-Times
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