Sunday, April 15, 2012

LA Times - At Tolliver's barbershop, pondering what 20 years have wrought

http://bit.ly/ITKM93

First, you can't have an A-plus recovery with C-minus schools. And second, you can't have a turnaround when thousands more good-paying jobs — in aerospace and industry — have become but a memory. Target and Starbucks do what they do just fine, but they don't send your kids to college the way Firestone and Hughes Aerospace did...compare per-pupil funding, Beverly Hills spends nearly twice what's spent on a student in his old neighborhood.

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