Rep. @BobbyScott speaks to the path forward on education:

"We're working on trying to maintain equity and education. We view it as a federal right but we have a lot of work to do to maintain the right to an education that is so important for peoples future." #QualityEdChat

"When people say desegregation failed that's just not accurate. What they should say is that we stopped trying to desegregate our schools and the courts allowed them to re-segregate."

@DerekWBlack gives the historical political context following Brown v. BOE #QualityEdChat

"Jim Crow, for a good 90 years, did everything it possibly could to bury the right to education. And to deny any of the truth about what the freed man had achieved for themselves and what Congress had tried to achieve."
— @DerekWBlack #QualityEdChat

. @CarmelMMartin says equal does not = equitable

"Whether it's through litigation or federal policy-making, we need to not just be making sure that students don't get less money because of their zip code or the color of their skin but, where necessary, they get more money."

"One of the reasons why we need a federal right to education for every child, whether they're at an alternative school or a regular school, they should have a means of insisting that the state ensures they get the education they need."
— @ProfKJRobinson

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