
Magnet schools turn away blacks, Latinos
Magnet schools in Hartford, Connecticut are turning away black and brown students in the name of integration, reports Erika Sanzi on Good School Hunting. There are plenty of empty seats, but a minority student can’t make it off the wait list until a white student enrolls LaShawn Robinson and her son, Jarod “If I want Jarod to have a seat, he can’t get in unless kids from the suburbs come in too,” says LaShawn Robinson, a black mother who tried for years to get her son into a