Wasserstrom is a retired attorney. He is a 1967 Southwest High School graduate who supports Uniting at Southwest, a community coalition that wants to reopen the school. He has the endorsement of Freedom Inc., Kansas City’s black political club.
Why are you running for school board?
Eighty percent of the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are black and brown. The total enrollment in the public school system has shrunk from 70,000 students to between 14,000 and 15,000. It is very difficult to say Kansas City has desegregated the schools in any meaningful sense, and it strikes me that a fairly obvious way of working on the problems that Kansas City has today is to get middle-class families to embrace the public school system.
