Word: kozol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current system fosters inequality, says Kozol, because school funding relies heavily on local property taxes. So, wealthier neighborhoods gather a larger pool of tax money for their kids' education...
Critics argue that simply pumping more money into schools won't help educational quality. Though he stops short of saying that money would definitely make the difference, Kozol believes putting more money into poor schools would be a "noble social experiment...
...Kozol is angered by what he perceives as a nationwide lack of attention to segregated schools...
...They'll (the Bush Administration) talk about everything except the central moral agony of our society-that we are still two nations," Kozol says...
...Kozol's thoughts on desegregation are far outside the bounds of current political debate. "In the North, the only feasible system of desegregation would have to be between the cities and suburbs," he says...