By Zaidee Stavely, KQED News Fix
Walking her daughter to school in their neighborhood of Sobrante Park in East Oakland, Marina Muñoz passes an old mattress on the curb and several abandoned cars. Then she crosses an empty lot covered with old clothes and smelly trash.
“Here in East Oakland, we are all poor,” says Muñoz in Spanish. “Poor in everything, including education.”
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For more information on school segregation, read the 2015 San Francisco Public Press Special Report: Choice Is Resegregating Public Schools.