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A less charitable reader might suggest that Kendi’s shift to an anti-racism of personal uplift was a sales tactic: After all, it is relatively easy to get elite universities, corporations and rich progressives to buy into the idea that they personally can make the world better by tweaking their vocabulary and making minor adjustments to their interpersonal etiquette. That vision offers good vibes at low cost.
Perspective | Ibram X. Kendi’s Fall Is a Cautionary Tale — So Was His Rise
Tyler Austin Harper
Certainly, charging $1 per use of a public bus stop is low when the regular MUNI fare is $2. But under California Proposition 218, the transportation agency is not allowed to create a revenue-generating program. So the program can only pay for its $1.7 million in costs now.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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In the end, about 46% of the city’s public school students will land in charter schools (DC has some of the densest concentrations of these largely publicly funded but privately managed schools in the country) and 54% will land in traditional public schools, either in their neighborhood school or in an out-of-boundary school they got through the lottery.
How School Boundaries and Feeder Patterns Shape DC’s Housing and Education Inequalities
Abigail Higgins
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