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The White Choice





 A growing number of choosy choosers are choosing the white choice for their children

It’s hard to believe but National School Choice Week is here againThis year’s choicetacular celebration started off with a bang—make that a bell—as students fromNewark Prep Charter School, operated by K12 (NYSE: LRN), rang the New York Stock Exchange opening bellsignaling the dawning of a new era of investing in student futuresBut hark! Could those be dark clouds threatening our bright yellow choice-filled future???
White Turn 
First: a brief encounter with our auld friend history. Back in the day the civil rights issue of our time was civil rights and the scourge of segregation lay heavy upon the land. But that was then and then is so not now. Today’s civil rights issue of our time is *choice*—the opportunity to choose one’s choice of educational choices. There’s just one wee problem, reader. In communities in which the symbolic yellow scarf doth now wave, a growing number of choosy choosers