Lynchburg education advocate resigns over achievement gap concerns between black and white students

Описание: A Lynchburg City Schools education advocate, who has spent years investigating the achievement gap among black and white students in LCS and was appointed to a committee to help address it, resigned from his seat and exclusively shared why he made that decision.

Danny McCain shared with ABC13's Hayden Robertson that he started to see signs of an achievement gap between black and white students in the division over two decades ago.

"Twenty-five years ago, I created the Concerned Citizens, and that's when I first noticed the achievement gap," McCain said. "And I noticed down through the years, it's been spreading wider and wider, and around 2014, that's when it really peaked. Since that point, it's just been the same, and it hasn't closed at all."

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