Most Fort Worth kids are behind in reading. Is that a civil rights issue?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Although the court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark moment in American history, the decision only touched one part of the question of students' educational rights -- the right of equal access to public schools.
48% : "This abject failure makes it nearly impossible for young people to attain the level of literacy necessary to function -- much less thrive -- in higher education, the workforce, and the activities of democratic citizenship," plaintiffs wrote in the complaint.

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