School Choice Discrimination Leaves No Choice for Vulnerable Youth of Color
The term school choice is commonly used by corporate education reformers as a grotesque misnomer to disguise their attempted end-run around the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal recognition in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) of the constitutional right of all children to equal educational opportunity, based upon the absolute rejection of the “separate but equal” concept of segregated public education.
School choice programs encourage privatized outsourcing of public education that increases academic segregation based on race, disability, language and poverty that undermines the concept of equal educational opportunity.
By: Ernest Saadiq Morris, Urban Youth Justice
The choice before human beings is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. -George Orwell
School Choice programs, including school vouchers, charter and magnet schools, are not