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Howard Fuller, former superintendent of Milwaukee’s publicschools. Schools led and controlled by black people. He’s built a long career out of advocating for the vehicles he believes are the black community’s best hope for self-determination: vouchers and charter schools. Fuller’s remedy? The trade-off.
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