Consultant presents replacement options for Champaign’s Schools of Choice program to board – Champaign News-Gazette

“The reason that this is so disruptive is that we have a segregated community,” board member Kathy Shannon said. “If we had a community where rich and poor were regularly mixed throughout the community, we could do traditional boundaries and it wouldn’t matter. Every school would have a relatively equal mix of low and high” socioeconomic status. “And so, I hate that this is going to be very disruptive — this is going to be very hard for people — but I want us to keep in mind that we’re doing this for the good of our students, and long term, maybe we want to think about ways to desegregate our city.”