NEW ORLEANS: THE POOR PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXPERIMENTS
It’s now clear that not everyone in American society has suffered equally or at all from charter school experiments.
While claiming to help the poor and people of color, in fact, corporate charters and their management companies have done the poor the most harm where those charters were given the most freedom and protection from the state.
In those instances, charter school corporations have aggressivelypursued their own financial interests on the backs of taxpayers, while carefully avoiding accountability. And they have done this at the expense of poor children of color and their neighborhoods.
In this series of three posts –The Poor Pay the Highest Price for Charter School Experiments, I will focus on three instances of corporation schools experimenting with their organizational models at the expense of poor children with little regard for the children’s future.
Let’s start with the longest running example:
New Orleans
After years of phasing out all of its public schools and unlawfully firing around 7,000 predominantly African-American teachers and staff, this year all the City of New Orleans schools will be charter schoolscontrolled by state appointees. Residents of New Orleans will not have any democratically elected control of what was originally New Orleans: The Poor Pay the Highest Price for Charter School Experiments | Life at the Intersections: