Data don’t tell full story in charter ’segregation’ study
Anti-charter school boards and superintendents no doubt are bookmarking a report that found that charter schools nationwide and in California are more racially and ethnically segregated than traditional public schools. They’ll cite the study, by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, as a rationale for denying a charter application or creating new demographic obstacles, under the guise of integration, that many urban charter schools cannot overcome.
That would be terrible for minority families who choose charters as an alternative to their neighborhood failing schools.
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That would be terrible for minority families who choose charters as an alternative to their neighborhood failing schools.
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