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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. Twenty-one percent of Lowell residents live in poverty; the average rate in small metro areas nationwide is 17 percent. She recently opted to eat lunch in the library, finding it less chaotic than the cafeteria. “I School just isn’t for me.

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