Why Pinellas County Is the Worst Place in Florida to Be Black and Go to Public School by Nathaniel Lash, Martin Frobisher, Alexis N Sanchez, Michael LaForgia

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the schools overwhelmingly poor and black. Then they broke promises of more money and resources. Then — as black children started failing at outrageous rates, as overstressed teachers walked off the job, as middle class families fled en masse — the board stood by and did nothing. Today thousands of children are paying the price, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

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