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Air date:
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:00am
Stealing Education? Who's stealing from whom?
Well-read Red Frann Michel discusses the case of Tanya McDowell, a homeless, Black single mother, sentenced to 12 years in prison in Connecticut for using her babysitter's address to enroll her son in a Norwalk school. Frann details the many ways in which governments and private schools are stealing education systematically from the poor and people of color.
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