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- Nikole Hannah-Jones regrets sending her daughter to predominantly Black public schools in a September essay.
- She wrote it after her daughter said she wasn’t getting the education she wanted.
- Online backlash was “pretty brutal,” with critics attacking her parenting.
- NYC mayor pledged a plan to address school-choice concerns raised by the essay.
- Heritage Foundation fellow Corey DeAngelis called her child a political prop and urged school-choice funding.