Dear Honorable Austin ISD Trustees and All Friends of AISD, During AISD's 'School Changes 2019', more students will move from one campus to another through school closures, consolidations, and boundary design than at any time since 1979's court-ordered desegregation. With such movement, there should be room in the conversation for ideas that truly reinvent the urban school experience. Austin ISD has a unique opportunity to have an honest conversation about socioeconomic and racial balance in our schools. In the landmark 1954 case Brown vs. The Board of Education, US Supreme Court concluded that ”in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” While legal segregation of schools is a relic of our past, functional separation is the current result of Austin ISD's enrollment design. If we believe segregated schools are ‘inherently unequal’, then the proposals below offer the potential of a just and equitable future for the Austin Independent School District:
In Respectful Partnership, The students of Integrate AISD and the adults of Integrated Schools, Austin Comments are closed.
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