Raising Up: Johnson Defends Her Decision

By Kleinheider Posted on July 14, 2008 at 2:48 pm

School Board member, Karen Y. Johnson, the controversial and singular black vote for Metro’s student reassignment, defends her decision:

Simply stated, the new rezoning plan changes the percentage of black students at Pearl-Cohn from 88 percent to 91 percent, which is not resegregation. We have a school system in a city where blacks make up 25 percent of the population but 53 percent of the student population, showing we’re already in a segregated system. And, it’s time to stop looking at everything as a black-white issue because Nashville has become far more diverse.

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