WALTER M. KIMBROUGH Author and President of Dillard University “ My daughter is in a charter school which is very diverse. She’s in the 6th grade and she just got her first Black teacher this year, and the school is very diverse. So, I mean, we see that, and my wife is going to be on the board where our son is and she’s like ‘I gotta lean on them to say this is New Orleans, y’all can’t find one Black teacher?’ That’s the kind of activism that we need. “ How do we incentivize people wanting to become teachers like we would professional sports and all those other things? I mean, we’ve gotta start paying top dollar to say, ‘Our best and our brightest, we want you be teachers, and here are the resources to do that.’ We haven’t done that. That has to happen.”
JOHN B. KING JR. President and CEO of The Education Trust “ So we’ve really got to ask, ‘Are we educating all our young people, including White young people, to think about a society that is just for all?’ and if we did that, I think we would have more communities like Montgomery County, Maryland, which has a forty-year history of intentionally integrated housing, intentionally integrated schools and has sustained that, but that’s taking an investment in moral leadership.”
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