[Mpls] 50 year anniversary of Brown v.s. Board of Education - Howdoes Minneapolis measure up today?

[Shauna Croom]

Man...its only 7:30 a.m. and I'm already using up my two posts for the day:

Mr. Wilson:  how does your proposal plan to abate white/affluent flight 
from your new racially integrated neighborhoods?  Does your proposal 
intend to grant financing only to families acceptible to the 
neighborhoods and somehow discourage others?  How will you calm fears 
that the socioeconomic drama disproportionately faced by families of 
color and low income won't disrupt the reputations of schools in the 
more affluent areas in town?  Is home ownership the only thing keeping 
brown families out of those areas?  I know you've called it just a 
"simple" plan, but I wonder if such simplicity does the total issue 
justice...it seems to me that in the past 50 years, your idea has to 
have been tried already....

Shauna Croom
working in Mpls

David Wilson wrote:

>A simple proposal:  spend some of the busing money on mortgage financing
>to promote homeownership in selected neighborhoods.  Racially integrate
>where people live, and the results will be more integrated public schools.
>
>David Wilson
>Loring Park
>
>
>
>On Mon, 17 May 2004, Sean Ryan wrote:
>
>  
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>>>From: Barbara Lickness <blickness at yahoo.com>
>>>
>>>How far have we come in Minneapolis in the past 50
>>>years?
>>>
>>>Any School Board candidates out there care to comment
>>>on this?
>>>      
>>>
>>  People segregate themselves and that's the problem, but no amount of
>>busing will solve this. Sayles Belton had a good idea when she dropped the
>>whole super-bus program and brought back neighborhood schools. Now if they
>>could only be equally funded and have access to the same programs and
>>amenities [ -Drive around and compare the Mpls. High schools- which ones
>>look the best and have the best facilities? You'll see a pattern emerge
>>pretty quickly-]
>>
>>  MONEY is the great equalizer, not school buses.
>>
>>Sean Ryan
>>Audubon-
>>
>>[Not quite responding to your comment, just throwing that out there. I'll
>>have time for a more thorough response later.]
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Sincerely,

                     Shauna

Shauna JeMai Croom
Public Relations Coordinator
Minneapolis Public Schools

807 NE Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55413

612.668.0233
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