Corey Turner
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928 appearances
95 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Sep
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I mean, she lives it and breathes it.
And also going back to something you said earlier, Aisha, Principal Allred told me
She really worries that school choice, the way it's been built in Iowa, is dividing families into those that have the time and the money and the know-how to seek out these other options and those who don't.
But I do want to be really clear here.
I spoke with a number of parents who could leave, but they don't want to.
They love Cleveland.
They love what it stands for, the staff, the legacy for 75 years.
Parent Antoine Jones has three kids at Cleveland.
He says he's not going anywhere.
Jones wakes up at 2.30 in the morning to load cargo planes at the airport.
And when he's done, around 7, he goes home
helps his kids get ready for school, and then he goes with them, Aisha, because he works during the day as a paraeducator at Cleveland for kids with disabilities.
I told Jones what we were talking about earlier, some parents saying they left the public schools because they felt like they'd gotten too disruptive and distracting, even unsafe.
But Jones pushed back on that.
He's Black.
He told me he grew up in Chicago and said he remembers moving into a suburban neighborhood when he was in middle school and watching white families leave.
And it turns out, again, you look at the data, the share of white students in the district has dropped a lot over the past decade, while the district's share of students with disabilities and kids living in poverty has increased.
And this isn't unique to Cedar Rapids.
I've seen this in other cities, too, with school choice.
Going back to Principal Allred, she got really emotional when she talked about the old public school way, you know, serving the common good.
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