When the City Council holds hearings on Chicago's selective enrollment high schools this summer, I hope aldermen consider the larger questions about racial and economic segregation as well as the particular ones that prompted their interest in the subject.
Aldermen Pat Dowell (3rd) and Will Burns (4th) called for the hearings in late April after a Sun-Times report showed declines in the number of black students and increases in the number of white students since 2009 at the city's top four selective enrollment high schools.…
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