Saturday, June 09, 2007

A Segregated Duluth?

(Photo by Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff)

A SEGREGATED DULUTH?
Jim Bushy, Jean Esler (in back), Sarah Olson, and Jordan Olson attended a meeting on Tuesday, May 22 to state their concerns about the future of the Duluth Public Schools. All four are against the closing of Central High School.

Bushy said it is important to keep Central High School and its 77 acres open because it is centrally located and unites Duluth. He is against a plan that would divide Duluth into two sections. This plan, he said, would have the poor people of Duluth and the majority of people of color going to one school, and higher income and white Duluthians going to another school.