A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back.
If Vice Chancellor Andrew Brown had been born a few years earlier, his schooling — and possibly his life — could have been very different.
Just four years before Brown was born, the Supreme Court decided a landmark case outlawing legally enforced segregation that coincidentally bears his name: Brown v. Board of Education. Against that backdrop, Brown’s hometown of Kingston, New York began efforts to integrate schools.
For Brown, then a preteen, that meant hopping on a bus that took him to a different school than his siblings attended. It was farther away from home, wealthier and whiter — and Brown, who is African American, thinks that made a big difference. . .