Urban middle class boosts school diversity

Greg Toppo:

As taped piano music plays, Ashley Brown issues a stream of commands. Firm and insistent, she strides around the tiny studio and puts her third-period ballet students through their steady, rhythmic paces.

What her eighth- and ninth-grade dancers may not notice is the larger ballet they're part of: the fraught, decades-old dance â?? one step forward, two steps back â?? of who goes to school where, and with whom.

They're doing nothing less than integrating a city.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 31, 2012 1:22 AM
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