Here’s a thought. Let’s spend billions of state dollars to build schools in the poorest neighborhoods, to correct the unequal educational opportunities between rich and poor. Let’s give a new state agency virtual carte blanche to buy property, work with local governments to identify sites, and build schools. To make the money stretch as far as it can and sweeten deals for politically well connected individuals, let’s build the new schools for poor kids on toxic waste sites. Sshh! No one will notice. No one will ever be the wiser. And then we can save the prime land for commercial … Continue reading →