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Friday, December 23, 2011

Schools Matter: Three Kinds of Charter Schools: Largely Segregated, Intensely Segregated, and Apartheid

Schools Matter: Three Kinds of Charter Schools: Largely Segregated, Intensely Segregated, and Apartheid:

Three Kinds of Charter Schools: Largely Segregated, Intensely Segregated, and Apartheid

If a charter school in the leafy suburbs of Georgia or North Carolina offers no federal breakfast or lunch program and no transportation for kids, can poor parents choose this school for their children who will, otherwise, not have breakfast, lunch, or a ride to and from school?

If a charter school in Memphis or Minneapolis offers, as the only option to a crumbling public school, a chain gang charter that mimics the total compliance KIPP behavioral and cultural neutering programs, can middle class parents ever be expected to choose to enroll their Seths and Caitlins there?

So no, the new segregation via charter school in America is not accomplish through legal mandates but by willful