What Connecticut's Schools Reveal About National Education Inequality

Americans know that funding local schools with local property taxes means inequality. We know that whole communities of children are coming up with substandard, even lousy education. And we don’t fix it. Last week, one judge said “enough.” A Connecticut judge said his state is failing - that it “has left rich districts to flourish and poor districts to flounder” - and gave legislators 180 days to design a better way. The whole country’s watching. This hour On Point, facing up to education inequality. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/09/13/connecticut-schools-academic-inequality