How Segregated Are Your Local Private Schools? We Made a Tool to Help You Find Out.
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Our reporters mined a trove of data that revealed detailed demographic information about private schools. That helped us find illuminating stories about how those schools divide communities.
"Local residents were dividing their scarce resources to operate two shrinking school systems, one private and one public — to the detriment of pretty much everyone there."
This is the fundamental dynamic and intent of decades and decades of dog-whistle politics.
In Heather McGhee's book, The Sum of Us, she delves into how wealthy regressive-right elites weaponize racism (and xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) against whites, blacks, immigrants,... to keep us from ...
