"Our Black students are, for lack of a better word...at the bottom, consistently still. And they are being outperformed consistently," Monique Parsons, vice president of ETHS's board of education told the Wall Street Journal.
Whether the move will in fact result in better academic performance among Black and Latinx students is an open question-but the initiative and a handful of others like it around the country have already drawn criticism, including the ire of conservatives who accuse these school districts of, essentially, allowing and indeed promoting 'segregation' in public schools.
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