ST. LOUIS – In a major move, the St. Louis NAACP has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Civil Rights over what they describe as a “literary crisis” facing African American children in St. Louis County and City.
The complaint targets not just public schools but private and charter schools as well.
“Black kids in all of those schools are reading behind; they’re reading at levels lower than the state,” St. Louis City NAACP President Adolphus M. Pruitt II said…