kateoplis: "The most important civil rights battleground today is education, and, likewise, the most crucial struggle against...

kateoplis:

Inner-city urban schools today echo the “separate but equal” system of the early 1950s. In the Chicago Public Schools where teachers are now on strike, 86 percent of children are black or Hispanic, and 87 percent come from low-income families.

Those students often don’t get a solid…