Mobile classrooms are a form of racial segregation, according to a civil rights group and some parents in the Elgin School District U46.
Local Rainbow PUSH Coalition chapter members and some U46 black parents made the claim at Monday night's school board meeting.
"We feel that the use of these mobile classrooms segregate our [black] children from the general student body," said the Rev. Walter H. Blalark, president of the Rainbow PUSH's Northwest Suburban Chapter, in a letter to the board.
Rainbow PUSH received word of this issue from black parents in the district, including Brenda Stevens, whose daughter received a fourth-grade education in a mobile classroom at …
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