The Price of Hope: Investigating Disparities Among Rich and Poor Schools By Debbie Cenziper and Ted Mellnik• The Education Beat: Dynamic Changes in How Schools Are Covered• March 15, 1999 Photo by Diedra Laird, The Charlotte Observer. For years, parents and educators in poverty-ridden pockets of the South sensed the public schools were shortchanging their children. And they were right. Their schools face numerous … Read more