Education Week: "It's time to end this radically discriminatory funding system that violates the civil rights of our children. It is racial discrimination in its purest form."
That is not a statement out of Little Rock, Ark., circa 1957. It's from Chicago, 2016. And the speaker is Forrest Claypool, the CEO of the Chicago school district, who has been making similar points repeatedly in recent public appearances, attempting to shame Illinois lawmakers into providing millions more in school funding for the nation's third-largest district.
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