Adrienne Adams: “A certain administration was closing schools, particularly…”

“And so I decided to plug into my community and I joined my local community board. I became the education chairperson. And what I discovered was that we had significant inequity in our communities at that time. A certain administration was closing schools, particularly in black and brown communities, and co-locating schools. And what that told me was that our children were failures. And I was determined never to send a message to my children or yours that they could ever be failures.” (12:18–12:26)

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