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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Schools Matter: Charter Industry Sends Out Their A Team Against Civil Rights Leaders, Part II

Schools Matter: Charter Industry Sends Out Their A Team Against Civil Rights Leaders, Part II

Charter Industry Sends Out Their A Team Against Civil Rights Leaders, Part II

So Professor West is puzzled:
It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued astatement criticizing the Obama administration’s current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low-performing schools and bemoaning the heavy concentration of charters in high-minority areas.
Let me see if I help you out, sir, to understand why every major civil rights group in the U. S. opposes RTTT and charter schools. It is not, as you and Peterson suggest in your Wall Street Journal op-ed, that they have been