Garfield High Teacher: Standardized Tests 'Disproportionately Impact Students Of Color'

"The first African-American president of the United States is not likely to... weaken the federal government’s ability to force states to take educational equity seriously," Conor P. Williams said. "For most of American history (and today), the decentralization of public education has been repeatedly used to protect de jure and de facto segregation, inequitable allocation of educational resources, and a dizzying variety of civil rights abuses."