It's the Teachers Fault

A common refrain heard here in Milwaukee is how we are overpaid and lazy, blah, blah, blah... Here's an amazing statistic to point to ONE of the reasons we might have a few problems in the school system.

"The proportion of metropolitan Milwaukee blacks living in high poverty neighborhoods rose from 8.4% in 1970 to 46.7% in 1990. By 1990, metro Milwaukee had the highest proportion of blacks living in high poverty neighborhoods of any metropolitan area in the Frostbelt."

Here's the source.