Unsaid in school debate: Where the white kids are

Posting this in GD, because it is from the Buffalo News Blog.

Anyway, a little background before I get to the blog post--for the most part, public schools in the city proper of Buffalo are absolutely awful with many averaging slightly over 20% graduation. There are a few "beacon" schools that require testing to get in (One mnetioned in the blog, City Honors, is where I was assigned to complete my urban student teaching requirement. It is the school that many of the local politicians send their kids.), but the rest are, in the most honest definition of the word, public schools.

Buffalo public schools are open to all people, regardless of the neighborhood. There are two exceptions, one of which is the focus of the article, that just happen to be in the predominately whiter (and much wealthier) parts of the city.

So, without further ado, an excerpt from Mary Pasciak's "School Zone" blog at the Buffalo News:
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/school_zone/2011/02/where-the-white-kids-are.html

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What's the whitest public school in Buffalo?

Discovery School 67.

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In a school district where 22 percent of the students are white, the South Buffalo elementary school's enrollment includes 84 percent whites.

And that has a lot to do with why Wednesday night's Board of Education meeting got so heated when Councilman Mickey Kearns said he wants to see South Park High School become either a school that requires students to test into -- or a high school that serves students from Discovery School.