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Author Archives: Derrell Bradford

Derrell Bradford is the executive director of NYCAN: The New York Campaign for Achievement Now, and contributes to 50CAN’s blog, The Catalyst, where a version of this column first appeared. He lives in the New York City metro area.

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Volunteers work to help clear out the debris from a CVS in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Maryland's governor vowed there would be no repeat of the looting, arson and vandalism that erupted Monday in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

Freddie Gray’s rough Baltimore streets shaped my fight for school choice

by Derrell Bradford April 29, 2015March 30, 2020

Fire is a gift from the gods, but it’s still hard to watch your neighborhood burn. There was no CVS on the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues in West Baltimore — or Penn North as folks from the area call it — but I know the corner like the back of my hand. I […]

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