A decade later, all sides praise the progress
By Anne Cook
Sunday March 5, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Treyona Cotton, a sixth-grader at Franklin Middle School, plays on a Gameboy as she waits Wednesday at the MTD bus transfer pont at Country Fair Drive in Champaign. After a court mandate, the city's school district has made inroads in racial equality through busing and other means -- but most agree there's more to be done.
CHAMPAIGN – When Carol Ashley first came to Champaign in 1996 to look at schools, top district administrators were all white. Black students rode buses every day to schools far from home.
"If someone today called a Barkstall parent and said, 'Your student's going to another school next year,' that parent would be up in arms," said Ashley, a Chicago attorney who represented plaintiffs – all mothers of black children – in legal actions resulting in a consent decree.
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