& here's why our charter school eval, like the others, will be problematic @dbseymour – Frm law.umn.edu/uploads/77/fd/… http://t.co/QnQUdsPYur—
Tom Haig (@ThomasHaig) September 16, 2015https://twitter.com/JimRose69872629/status/644363071377420289
The snakeoil claims selling #charterschools in Aotearoa NZ nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl… @KHRoyal @CLub_edu @jerseyjazzman http://t.co/Nmex85ka8y—
Teachers@ PPTA (@PPTAWeb) September 16, 2015
The unthinking opposition to charter schools has reached new depths with SaveOurSchoolsNZ sharing The Racist History of the Charter School Movement.
This article relates the founding of charter schools and school choice to the opposition of the Democratic party to the desegregation of schools in the late 1950s in the southern States of America.
In Prince Edward County, Virginia, one of the five cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Democratic Party government threatened to close the public school system and transfer the assets to private hands to avoid school desegregation.
Naturally, the article, which was supposed to be recounting history was some accuracy and new insight, fails to mention that this racism was in the Democratic Party. That’s one dirty little secret to many. These Democratic party stalwarts were instead labelled segregationist whites.
The threat to close the public school system and transfer it to…
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