‘According to our textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order i which ecumenic privilege and political power are determined by hereditary class…By the standard, education offered to poor children should be at least as good as that which is provided to the children of the upper-middle class.’

This is despicably and schematically denied by our education system.

Conservative Fear

National Standard

The Dream Deferred,

Again, In San Antonio

National competition standards provide faulty information. Children of the highest and most affluent schools are ‘competing’ against the children of East St. Louis and Lawndale. There is no competition at all.

Texas-sized Comparisons

of 110 districts in Texas, the 10 wealthiest districts spent an average of 3 times as much as the four poorest districts. This was while the state used the ‘equalizing’ formula (political jargon).