NAACP Draws Line in Sand Against Charter Schools - New York Bronx County Independent | Examiner.com

NAACP Draws Line in Sand Against Charter Schools - New York Bronx County Independent | Examiner.com

NAACP Draws Line in Sand Against Charter Schools

• June 8, 2011 9:39 pm ET

Billy Wharton

• Bronx County Independent Examiner

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Something seems to have woken up the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After years of political sleepwalking through the worst of the Conservative backlash and the rise of Neoliberalism, the veteran Civil Rights organization has taken a courageous stance against the expansion of charter schools in New York City. Despite heavy pressure from politically well-connected charter owners and even a march on their Harlem office by pro-charter school parents, NAACP spokespeople have held strong to their opposition. The President of the New York State Chapter of the group, Hazel Dukes, even turned up the temperature of the conflict by publicly stating that those parents who support charters are serving the interests of the “slave masters.”

This struggle has, thus far, been carried out in the courtroom

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