OPINION EXCHANGE | Research shows progressive places, like Minneapolis, have the worst achievement gaps
Conservative cities are much better at closing the opportunity gap in education. We must demand more from our system.
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The Author is the Director of a community activist training Foundation known as the Wayfinder Foundation and not a typical person who would pen such a provocative column.
After going over some of the findings, sourced from Brightbeam, a nonprofit education advocacy organization, the authors main tangible solution is that in "progressive" cities such as hers there is a lack of urgency due to the comfortable status quo and that elected officials simply aren't being held accountable.