{"id":367563,"date":"2026-10-08T04:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367563\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:31:29","slug":"how-do-black-parents-decide-where-to-enroll-their-children-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367563\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Black parents decide where to enroll their children in school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leslie Ann Murray<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East Flatbush, Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the question that should be discussed is why do we have so many divided, unequal schools? Why [are] our neighborhood and our tax dollars tied toward how our schools get funding? Why are Black and Brown kids from birth slated \u2014 this is a caste system \u2014 slated to do poor, slated to do bad, slated to not become something because of the educational system and where they were born \u2026 I hope this spurs us on not only thinking about the unequal system we\u2019re in, but how do we change it and how do we create tangible change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leslie Ann Murray East Flatbush, Brooklyn \u201cI think the question that should be discussed is why do we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,135928,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-367563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-roving-camera","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}