Re: savage inequalities, Ohio

[Judi Hirsch <judih@OUSD.K12.CA.US>]

There was a program on KQED a while ago on "Savage Inequalities"
which showed two neighboring school districts with vastly different
resources; the one with the better resources had built a nuclear power
plant to generate $$--and you should have seen their school gym!
anyway, Kozol was on that show along with legislators who were asked
questions by the audience. Particularly poignant was the question from a
poor white teen asking why they didn't care about her education.
Judi
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Farruggio <pfarr@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: savage inequalities, Ohio


> I just came in on the middle of a radio documentary on NPR ("All Things
> Considered"?) about the serious underfunding of urban public schools in
> Ohio.  It sounded like a gymnasium collapsed recently in a Cleveland high
> school, which shocked (SHOCKED!!) a bunch of non-educators who were
> interviewed for the piece.  There was mention of the Ohio School
Facilities
> Commission reporting out to the public about a statewide crisis with
> decrepit conditions rampant in the inner cities and working class
> areas.  The Republican governor (a Taft, of course!) had declared an
> "emergency" program to pump $10 billion into  building new schools over
the
> next 12 years, and critics declared that the sum was woefully inadequate
> given the current state of the schools.  There was also some talk about
the
> huge inequality in school conditions between cities and suburbs.
>
> Overall, it sounded like a good exposition of the conditions our poor and
> minority kids must suffer every day in school.  I'd like to know how I
> might get a copy of the report in audio format.  Does NPR do that on
> request?  Whom would I contact?
>
> Also, can any of you in Ohio please fill us in on the details?  This is
> exactly the situation we are facing in California, but I haven't heard or
> seen any good documentaries about that out here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Farruggio
>
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