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Historically, the most coveted public schools in America use government-drawn maps to discriminate against students who live in "less desirable" parts of town.

— Tim DeRoche How Public Schools Cherry-Pick Their Students (2023)

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Huck undergoes a change in Twain’s original in terms of how he sees the slave Jim, and Huck undergoes a similar change in this book.

The original Huck Finn is not about slavery; it’s not about race. This is a story about an abused kid looking for a safe haven.

The core belief driving our work is so simple that it might sound radical. Even the best and most coveted public schools should be open and accessible to all families.

I started thinking of Huck Finn as a protoypical American myth.

By carving up our cities into attendance zones, we are perpetuating the economic and racial divisions that marked one of the darkest eras of our nation’s past.

A Fine Line (2020)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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