Jonathan Kozol wrote Savage Inequalities twenty years ago, but obviously its lessons haven't taken hold. If convicted, she could face 20 years in prison. In Connecticut in April, Tanya McDowell, a homeless single mother from Bridgeport, is being charged with larceny and conspiracy for enrolling her 5-year old son in Norwalk schools, fraudulently using a friend's address. They demanded she pay $30,000 in back tuition, for four years of schooling. "Those dollars need to stay home with our students," said officials with the Copley-Fairlawn district, which went to the trouble and expense of hiring a private investigator to film the mother driving her children into the district. "School officials said she was cheating because her daughters received a quality education without paying taxes to fund it," said an ABC article. In Ohio in January, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail and three years probation for enrolling her children in the Copley-Fairlawn School District rather than Akron, where she lived. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back against NCLB and the most recent Supreme Court decision on desegregation, and to help create a single, excellent, unified system of American public schools.Two cases of mothers lying about where they reside in order to get their young children into better school districts have made news recently. Most recently, Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action. Kozol has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. After returning to the United States, Kozol became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, until he was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem.
Upon graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back against NCLB and the most recent Supreme Court decisi Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools.
Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools.
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