Voices from the school desegregation era

Kitty Taylor and students
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.
MPR Photo/Tim Post

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