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Texas, 78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

Integrating Schools by Income, Not Race: Why Cities Are Embracing ‘an Idea Whose Time Has Come’

Video Tour: Meet the Educators & Parents Leading San Antonio’s Push for Integrated Schools

A Special Ed Partnership Makes Texas History

How Texas Is ‘Shifting the Power’ to Give Some Schools Greater Autonomy, Leadership & Innovation

From Troubled School to Turnaround to Texas ‘Teaching Lab’

What Other Cities & School Districts Can Learn From San Antonio’s Classroom Innovations

WATCH — A Family’s Perspective on How Their Public Montessori School Led Them to Think Differently About School Integration, Special Education, and Inclusion

San Antonio’s Public Montessori Program, Designed for Diversity — and Inclusion

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VIDEO TOUR — Inside Steele Montessori Academy, San Antonio’s Public Program Designed for Inclusion, Integration, and to Serve Special Education Students

In Texas, School Integration That Celebrates Family Heritage

WATCH — In San Antonio, an Integration Experiment Spurs New School Options That Embrace Families’ Heritage: Inside Mark Twain Dual Language Academy

WATCH — ‘They Had to Shake Things Up’: One Mom’s Appreciation for San Antonio ISD’s Commitment to Improving Schools for City’s Most Impoverished Kids

‘This Zip Code Is Their World’: San Antonio’s Ambitious Plan to Expand School Options — and Horizons

T74 Profile: In San Antonio’s Poorest Neighborhood a New School Launches, Built Around Global Studies and Expanding Horizons

VIDEO — From Competitors to Collaborators: What One Texas Superintendent Learned When He Welcomed Top Charter Networks to Town and Raised the Bar for Students

WATCH — The Architect: How One Texas Innovation Officer Is Designing His Schools to Ensure Integration

The Architect: How One Texas Innovation Officer Is Rethinking School Integration

T74 Documentary: A School Integration Breakthrough in Texas — Built Around Income, Choice & Community

78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

74 Interview: Meet Pedro Martinez, the San Antonio Superintendent Who Spearheaded One of America’s Most Unique School Integration Experiments

WATCH: How One Gifted and Talented Program in Texas Dropped Its Screening and Opened Up ‘Higher Order’ Learning to a Whole New Community

WATCH: Inside America’s Most Radical School Integration Strategy, Built to Address Poverty, Trauma & Parental Choice

74 Interview: NYC Schools Chief Richard Carranza Talks Integration, Smart Parents, Renewal Schools, and Quality Assurance Across 1,800 Schools

The State of America’s Student-Teacher Racial Gap: Our Public School System Has Been Majority-Minority for Years, but 80 Percent of Teachers Are Still White

New Research: Diversity Initiative Helps Stave Off Gentrification in Seven NYC Schools

Marchitello & Pennington — School Choice and Integration: Together, They Can Disrupt Deep-Seated Inequities in Our Public School System

House Committee Advances Education Spending Bill With $41 Million Increase, Ends Long-standing Ban on Federal Integration Efforts

Regifted: The First 7 Questions to Ask About Mayor de Blasio’s Ambitious Plan to Integrate New York City’s Specialized High Schools

Whitmire: Why Boston’s Most Racially Diverse School Could Also Be the Country’s Most Interesting School Integration Story

Boser and Baffour: Making School Integration Work for the 21st Century

12 Things to Know About School Segregation — and How Integration Helps Students

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