Photo: #Kitty Taylor works with students in her classroom at the Hiawatha Leadership Academy in Minneapolis. The first charter school in the nation opened in St. Paul in 1992, starting a movement that now includes some 5,000 schools nationwide.

Voices from the school desegregation era


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An American RadioWorks documentary, "An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era." People share their memories of school integration in the 1960s and 1970s. New studies show that many schools are becoming re-segregated.

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