Oakland Prides Itself on Being Diverse — Until It Comes Time to Send Kids to School

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Celia Fragoso (right) walks with her mother, Marina Muñoz, through their Oakland neighborhood of Sobrante Park on the way to Madison Park Academy, where Celia attends school. Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED

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.”

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

For more information on school segregation, read the 2015 San Francisco Public Press Special Report: Choice Is Resegregating Public Schools.

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