Eric Mar on the end of the Consent Decree

Be sure to check out Eric Mar's recent blog posts on the demise of the Consent Decree. I like this passage from his post, "SF Schools Consent Decree will expire Dec. 31, 2005"

[Judge William Alsup]"As the decree has come to be used, the Court must pretend to supervise decisions better left in the hands of education professionals subject to the rough and tumble of local politics and government."

Now it is up to our Board of Education and district to ensure fairness and equity in our student assignment system and also in how we distribute our resources as well. We have been meeting with community advocates and the researchers from the Harvard Civil Rights Project and other groups to come up with a new system that can allow our district to counter the rapid resegregation going on in our district and urban districts around the country.

He subsequently wrote this post about the reporting of the event, "San Francisco Schools Desegregation Order Ends - Racial and Socio-Economic Inequality Continues".

Hats off to Eric for publishing his thoughts and ideas on the web. Most pols just don't get that this is such an advantage.