By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Inequality in the U.S. education system favors white children over minorities, the poor and the disabled, making it “one of the most urgent civil rights issues of our time,” former President George W. Bush said on Thursday. Speaking to a crowd of students, activists, and national leaders in Austin, Texas, his home state, Bush said he fears a return to “the soft bigotry of low expectations” that strips [...]
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