A Shen parent posted this to Facebook & it’s gotten over 200 shares. It’s good to see suburban parents speaking up about inequality #fundourschools #Albany 
Some people are starting to understand the choices their privilege allows them to make, like where to live, have real downstream effects....
My biggest fear is that our urban & rural districts never recover. Once a social program is dismantled, that’s it. People move on, we decide it’s too expensive & too hard to rebuild. Albany has spent years building services & programs that had were getting results.
An art & music program that even suburban schools envied, an international school for the large number of immigrant & refugee families the district serves (there are FIFTY different languages spoken in the district!), wrap-around services that supported parents
If there were a metro region to implement regional tax base sharing, let it be the Capital Region. A regional funding model could significantly narrow fiscal disparities.
And I often think about Greg’s farewell in @alloveralbany & the fact that, as a region, our fortunes are tied to each other. We can’t turn our backs on any city or neighborhood. Kids shouldn’t have to suffer, & that’s who will suffer.
