Kamala Harris’ Plan to Extend School Hours Is Good — for White-Collar Parents

If we’re going to make education equal for all, we need to account for parents who don’t work a 9-to-5

Andre Perry
GEN
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4 min readNov 7, 2019

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EEvery parent of a school-aged child knows the purgatorial period between the end of the school day and the end of the traditional workday. There’s a short window…

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Andre Perry
GEN
Writer for

Author of the forthcoming book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. Fellow at the Brookings Institution.