AP
June 12, 2008
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and his Washington, DC, counterpart joined the Rev. Al Sharpton and others yesterday to press for a shake-up of public schools from coast to coast to narrow the achievement gap between white students and black and Hispanic students.
The group called the gap the nation's most pressing civil-rights issue.
Klein, Sharpton and DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee appeared together to announce the creation of the Education Equality Project, an advocacy group to reform a public-education system they say has been paralyzed by special interests like teachers unions.
