Over $1B and counting for TFA, Inc., de facto discrimination in charter schools, the failed Microsoft model hoisted onto our educational system and Maryland superintendent says “Stop the insanity” | Parents Across America

Over $1B and counting for TFA, Inc., de facto discrimination in charter schools, the failed Microsoft model hoisted onto our educational system and Maryland superintendent says “Stop the insanity” | Parents Across America:

Over $1B and counting for TFA, Inc., de facto discrimination in charter schools, the failed Microsoft model hoisted onto our educational system and Maryland superintendent says “Stop the insanity”

by DoraTaylor

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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

Frederick Douglass

I keep wondering when folks in this country are going to say enough is enough. Until then the Wendy Kopp’s, Michelle Rhee’s, the Waltons and the Gates will continue to plow on and plow  us under.

Today, we’ll begin with:

‘De facto’ discrimination in Connecticut: Where is the outrage?

What if it became clear that a public school in Connecticut wouldn’t accept many African American children or children from single parent households or children who come from households with same sex parents?

There would be outrage, demonstrations would be held and politicians would act to put an end to the “de facto” discrimination that was taking place in our state.

“De facto” discrimination is where the discriminatory practice isn’t built into the law, but into the practices of government, an organization or society.  While the law doesn’t require the discrimination, the discrimination exists nonetheless.

The Jim Crow laws were an example of legal (de jure) discrimination.  The segregation and discrimination that continued after those laws were repealed by the 1964 Civil Rights act were proof that de facto discrimination