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Resistance to school integration in the name of 'local control': 5 questions answered

  • Written by Erica Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Pennsylvania State University
The nation has struggled with school integration since school segregation was outlawed in 1954.AP

Editor’s note: The word “secession” is often used in reference to states or countries that wish to break off and form their own government. But here in the United States, there are communities that want to secede from their school...

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