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Two Moms, Two Choices For Their Kids' Education

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Eleanor Wohlfeiler (left) poses for a photo with her three children in front of Peralta Elementary School in Oakland. Kristin Smith (right) and her family outside Sankofa Academy in Oakland. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)
Eleanor Wohlfeiler (left) poses for a photo with her three children in front of Peralta Elementary School in Oakland. Kristin Smith (right) and her family outside Sankofa Academy in Oakland. (Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)

Most kids in California go to schools segregated both by race and by poverty or wealth. It's pretty much a two-tiered, unequal education system. And in Oakland, one of the most diverse cities in the country, schools remain deeply segregated.

Zaidee Stavely (@zstavely) from Here & Now contributor KQED met with two families, one white and one black, who tried their own integration experiments.

This segment aired on November 29, 2016.

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