Christine Kushner says she will "carry" the values represented by the Democratic Party

Actually, I attended segregated schools.  Our system was integrated my senior year of high school.  I don't remember if it was court-ordered, or if they did it just to prevent being ordered to do so by the courts.  I don't want to see Wake County have dozens of high poverty, racially identifiable schools just like the ones back then, and in most of the districts in the nation now.    That is what will happen if we go to proximity based schools, because of housing patterns which  have not changed enough to prevent it.  Even choice won't prevent having such schools.  I do like Tata's idea of allowing ED students first choice to attend high-achieving schools, but Margiotta has already nixed that idea, and most suburban families wouldn't be happy if they were not able to attend close-by schools because seats were being set aside for ED kids across town.

I agree that resources need to be targeted to the students who need them, rather than relying on demographic characteristics.  That can be more easily done in schools that do not have too many high-needs students.  Think of the highest functioning students in that high poverty school -- do you think there will be numbers sufficient to have many of the AP classes they deserve?  I think they would be even more likely to be overlooked by teachers dealing with too many students who need more attention just to bring them up to grade level. 

And yes, there are some educators succeeding with those ED students.  Many of them, like those in the Harlem Zone, are lucky to have funding of almost $20,000 per student.  You know that will never happen here.  They might have smaller class sizes.  They might be expected to spend many more hours working with and being available to those students like in the Kipp schools, which also require a lot of parental support, or the students are sent back to the public schools for those teachers to deal with.  And many of them who are successful after facing day after day and year after year with too many kids who start years behind their peers and are expected to catch up immediately just burn out, and we lose them. They get tired of being accused of being the problem, of being greedy, of being biased, of not being treated as professionals.  Others might not be as successful because they aren't given the support or the resources necessary to make up for all the extras middle-class kids have and ED kids lack, but they certainly don't deserve the vitriol you and others unleash on them.

I wouldn't presume to know what Holdzkum meant, especially not knowing the context.  I would guess he meant they have more obstacles to being successful, and was not very precise with his choice of words.   I probably should have said "most educators."