Citizens of WHAT World? Recruiting tactics and leaked documents
For more on this issue, see the DNA article here.
Williamsburg and Greenpoint parents have been fighting what we see as a real threat to re-segregate public schools in our neighborhood through Citizens of the World Charter Schools (CWC), a Los Angeles-based chain of schools imposed upon District 14 as well as District 17 in
CWC's Core parent group = "Predominantly white"
From the earliest stages, CWC identified the white, affluent families in Williamsburg (and later, Crown Heights) as the "community stakeholders" who would help them form their proposal. These families, none of whom had school age children, were targeted with private information sessions and invites sent through email lists and members-only listservs.
Now DNAInfo reveals an internal marketing memo that documents how Citizens of the World treats white, affluent families differently