Equity is Empathy in Action

Jonathan P. Raymond
8 min readAug 24, 2018
Three girls, three different heights.

As a first-time author, I’ve been surprised and grateful to find out how people are experiencing my book. I wrote Wildflowers, A School Superintendent’s Challenge to America to share the urgent lessons I learned about public education during my four-and-a-half years as school superintendent in Sacramento, CA. I felt the need to reach everyone: parents, educators, voters, policy experts, and legislators. Now, I’m hearing from everyone. And…

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Jonathan P. Raymond

Superintendent, City School District of New Rochelle, NY — Views and opinions are my own