INTERVIEW: Hoover School Bus Supporter Trisha Powell Crain
Birmingham– There’s been a victory of sorts for parents whose children ride school buses in Hoover. In July, the school board got national attention and angered
many residents by voting to scrap the sprawling district’s busing program starting
next school year. But after intense community pressure and input from the Justice
Department, the board unanimously reversed itself Monday night. Shortly after, WBHM’s Southern Education Desk reporter Dan Carsen
caught up with Trisha Powell Crain, a Hoover parent and longtime education policy writer. Though she has some misgivings, she calls last night’s school-board reversal a good example of what persistent community organizing can accomplish:
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