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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election?
by mike simpson / 5h
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election? : Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election? Arne Duncan at Boston DFER meeting supporting unfettered charter expansion. MA voters disagreed and defeated Question#2 and Trump in the process. It was back in 2013 parent protests against Common Core testing were bub
Light the Fire: Davis writer explores a teacher’s life in era of high-stakes testing
by mike simpson / 5h
Davis writer explores a teacher’s life in era of high-stakes testing : Longtime Davis resident and veteran high school English teacher Matt Biers-Ariel has published a new book — a novel titled “Light the Fire.” Biers-Ariel will hold a book-signing event at 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in downtown Davis. Author Matt Biers-Ariel lives in Davis and teaches in Winters. Courtes
CURMUDGUCATION: Help Back Backpack
by mike simpson / 6h
CURMUDGUCATION: Help Back Backpack : Help Back Backpack Sarah Mondale is a documentary filmmaker and teacher. Ten years ago, she and her partners created the multi-part documentary School: The Story of American Education ( you can find the book form at many booksellers ). Now she has a new project and it deserves your support. Backpack Full of Cash is a look at the privatization of education in A
Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare | 89.3 KPCC
by mike simpson / 6h
Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare | 89.3 KPCC : Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare What is it like to be a child growing up in California in 2016? A new report that analyzes indicators of child well-being paints a bleak picture: Large numbers of Californian children live in poverty, and educational and health outcomes statewide are, at best, fair. The non-
The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. | the becoming radical
by mike simpson / 6h
The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. | the becoming radical : The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale offers a not-to-distant dystopia in which Atwood explores the rise of a theocracy as a sanctuary for the declining white race; the work is a tour-de-force confrontation of sexism and misogyny as well as dramatization of the relati
Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School
by mike simpson / 7h
Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School : Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School Two groups have filed a federal complaint against Red Bank Charter School, alleging discriminatory practices in enrollment and asking that the school be closed. Fair Schools Red Bank, a group of parents at Red Bank Borough Public Schools, and the Latino Coaliti
Rep. Judy Chu asks President Obama to protect the information of 'Dreamers' before Trump takes office - LA Times
by mike simpson / 7h
Rep. Judy Chu asks President Obama to protect the information of 'Dreamers' before Trump takes office - LA Times : Rep. Judy Chu asks President Obama to protect the information of 'Dreamers' before Trump takes office With President-elect Donald Trump vowing to deport thousands of people in the country illegally, Rep. Judy Chu on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to protect the names of "Drea
Who is Funding the Backlash against John Oliver's Charter School Critique? — Inside Philanthropy
by mike simpson / 7h
Who is Funding the Backlash against John Oliver's Charter School Critique? — Inside Philanthropy : Who is Funding the Backlash against John Oliver's Charter School Critique? On August 21, 2016, John Oliver stepped into the heated debate around charter schools . His segment reported on mismanagement and misspending at charter schools in several states. It also called into question the free market
Municipal Bond Analysts Seek Greater Transparency from Charter Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog
by mike simpson / 7h
Municipal Bond Analysts Seek Greater Transparency from Charter Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog : Municipal Bond Analysts Seek Greater Transparency from Charter Schools We are well aware that charter schools open and close, sometimes for academic reasons, sometimes for financial reasons. Unfortunately, some of these schools are financed with municipal bonds, which makes them a risky endeavor. The s
ESP Day: Honoring the Hard-Working Women and Men who Help Educate the Whole Student
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ESP Day: Honoring the Hard-Working Women and Men who Help Educate the Whole Student : ESP Day: Honoring the Hard-Working Women and Men who Help Educate the Whole Student From coast to coast, students, teachers, and parents are rolling out the red carpet in a national day of recognition for e ducation support professionals (ESP) , who are integral members of the education team. As part of American
Trump's plan to destroy Public Education may face uphill battle
by mike simpson / 8h
Trump's school choice expansion plan may face uphill battle : Trump's school choice expansion plan may face uphill battle WASHINGTON (AP) - School voucher programs in the nation's capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence's home state of Indiana could serve as a blueprint for a Trump administration plan to use public money to enable disadvantaged students to attend the public or private school
LAUSD board: If Trump administration asks for student data, district will resist | 89.3 KPCC
by mike simpson / 8h
LAUSD board: If Trump administration asks for student data, district will resist | 89.3 KPCC : LAUSD board: If Trump administration asks for student data, district will resist If President-elect Donald Trump ever attempted to turn the Los Angeles Unified School District’s vast stores of student information against kids or their families in any way, the district’s school board pledged Tuesday to r
NANCY BAILEY: Recent Research Shows Vouchers Fail Children
by mike simpson / 8h
Recent Research Shows Vouchers Fail Children : Recent Research Shows Vouchers Fail Children The Trump presidency seems to want to base its education program on school choice. But vouchers have a history of failure. The two most recent studies indicate that students do worse with vouchers. The Louisiana Scholarship Program provided tuition to poor students in low-performing public schools. An MIT
California’s New Embrace of Bilingual Education: An Academic and a Personal Affirmation | janresseger
by mike simpson / 9h
California’s New Embrace of Bilingual Education: An Academic and a Personal Affirmation | janresseger : California’s New Embrace of Bilingual Education: An Academic and a Personal Affirmation Patricia Gandara, the Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, explains the technical significance of Californians’ rejection at the polls last week of the 1998, Proposition 227, which mandated Engli
Rep. Messer Excited for Trump Agenda, Would Be 'Honored' to Serve as Ed. Sec. - Politics K-12 - Education Week
by mike simpson / 9h
Rep. Messer Excited for Trump Agenda, Would Be 'Honored' to Serve as Ed. Sec. - Politics K-12 - Education Week : Rep. Messer Excited for Trump Agenda, Would Be 'Honored' to Serve as Ed. Sec. Hoosier School Heist TV is Doug Martin's channel featuring videos of his book tour across Indiana speaking on the corporate takeover of public education. Order Hoosier School Heist at http://hoosierschoolheis
CURMUDGUCATION: Trump Teaching Lesson
by mike simpson / 9h
CURMUDGUCATION: Trump Teaching Lesson : Trump Teaching Lesson There's an aspect of Candidate Trump's success that I think is both under-discussed and also a good lesson/reminder for those of us in the teaching biz. Trump never made folks feel stupid. Seriously. Members of the public would figuratively run up to him hollering, "Good lord, did you see this terrible story on the internet," and witho
Russ on Reading: Purposeful Reading: Engaging Students in Content Text
by mike simpson / 9h
Russ on Reading: Purposeful Reading: Engaging Students in Content Text : Purposeful Reading: Engaging Students in Content Text I had the opportunity to observe a guided reading lesson in a second grade class last week. The children were reading a book called Wonderful Worms, by Linda Glaser. The teacher did a fine job of introducing the book to the children and worked hard to set the purpose for
Doing Well By Doing Good: For-Profit Schools | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
by mike simpson / 9h
Doing Well By Doing Good: For-Profit Schools | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice : Doing Well By Doing Good: For-Profit Schools For all of the three-decade hype about how business practices applied to K-12 schools will make them more efficient and high performing, a short hop and skip through the past half-century of for-profit companies failing in the education market might ill

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Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 11/15/16
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Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 11/15/16 Featured Post Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gwen Ifill interviewed George Bush in 2004 about the 'ownership society' Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Times Leads Its 

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election?:

Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election?

Arne Duncan at Boston DFER meeting supporting unfettered charter expansion. MA voters disagreed and defeated Question#2 and Trump in the process. 
It was back in 2013 parent protests against Common Core testing were bubbling up around the country and the opt-out movement was moving ahead full-steam.

Instead of uniting with or at least trying to understand parent/teacher discontent with testing madness, former Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, representing Pres. Obama, lashed out at what he called, "White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’".


At anther appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, Duncan claimed that opposition to the Common Core testing had been fueled by “political silliness.” He told a convention of newspaper editors that his critics were misinformed at best and laboring under paranoid delusions at worst.

Aside from being a terribly misleading statement -- tens of thousands of urban parents, black, white and Latino joined the opt-out movement -- it was an insulting sting, not only for parents, but their children, that left a permanent mark. 

As a parent and grandparent of public school students, in a city like Chicago, where Duncan once ruled the education roost, I can tell you that calling parents "paranoid" and "delusional" is probably not the best way to win an election for your party. 

Did Duncan's disdain for white suburban parents have an impact last week's election results Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Did Arne Duncan's attack on suburban parents help Trump win the election?:


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Light the Fire: Davis writer explores a teacher’s life in era of high-stakes testing

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Light the Fire: Davis writer explores a teacher’s life in era of high-stakes testing
Longtime Davis resident and veteran high school English teacher Matt Biers-Ariel has published a new book — a novel titled “Light the Fire.” Biers-Ariel will hold a book-signing event at 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in downtown Davis.
Author Matt Biers-Ariel lives in Davis and teaches in Winters. Courtesy photo
Author Matt Biers-Ariel lives in Davis and teaches in Winters. Courtesy photo

“The book has to do with high school,” Biers-Ariel told The Enterprise. “It took me 15 years of teaching in a high school to really understand the dynamics that I wanted to write about.
“The issues I wanted to look at are teacher-student relationships, test scores and how tests are ‘the tail that wags the dog.’ I wanted to show the different student groups … the group that’s college-bound, and those who just want to get a high school diploma, and how we treat them differently as teachers.
“And I also wanted to look at the whole notion of the Common Core academic standards, and who determines what should be taught.”
The main character is a teacher named Samson, who observes at one point that nothing in the Common Core academic standards “deals with the appreciation of literature, or building a creative mind. … Mr. Samson is fighting a rear-guard war against the (school district) administration, which is focused on test scores. Everyone’s job depends on it,” Biers-Ariel said.

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But the novel is also a story about a particular teacher, who gives in to a particular temptation.
“This is not just a ‘policy book,’ it is about a teacher who loses his bearings, and tries to ‘get with the program.’ And it takes a toll on him, it turns him toward alcohol,” the author said. “He’s a young teacher, and young teachers and students sometimes have special bonds.
“High school is a crucible where students really begin to explore themselves in the world, and the teachers become guides, friends, they take part in this journey with them, and sometimes those lines get blurred. Even though we morally know the right thing to do, Mr. Samson finds himself in territory that he doesn’t not want to be in, he did not choose to be there, but there he is. So how does he respond?”
The book follows two different classes — an Advanced Placement class, where the students want to get college credit, and a regular English class, Biers-Ariel said. Samson has a very different way of approaching these two classes. It’s a flaw of his that he doesn’t give the non-AP kids intellectual rigor.
“The plot is fiction,” he stressed. “The teacher — in the classroom — that’s pretty much based on me. The main character, Mo Samson, is not me at all. But if one of my students were to walk into this character’s classroom, they would recognize the teaching.”
Dean Vogel of Davis, former president of the California Teachers Association who taught for many years in Vacaville, says that “many books try to capture the dynamics between teachers and their students. Usually they miss the mark, but ‘Light the Fire‘ hits the bull’s-eye. As an educator for over 45 years, I am thoroughly impressed by Biers-Ariel’s ability to translate the feel of a classroom into a novel. This book is real.”
Biers-Ariel has written six books, including a memoir and a book for children. This new novel is independently published.
“I like the control that I never got (before) with a publisher,” he said.
He grew up in Los Angeles — “a Valley boy,” as he puts it. He did his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, followed by graduate studies at Hebrew Union College in both Israel and Los Angeles.
He came to Davis 17 years ago, and teaches in Winters. He describes himself as an agnostic Jew who thinks the Bible is the root of western fiction. When he isn’t teaching or writing, he can often be found river kayaking.
His website is mattbiers-ariel.com.
You can hear him read from the novel at this online link:

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8055


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CURMUDGUCATION: Help Back Backpack

CURMUDGUCATION: Help Back Backpack:

Help Back Backpack



Sarah Mondale is a documentary filmmaker and teacher. Ten years ago, she and her partners created the multi-part documentary School: The Story of American Education (you can find the book form at many booksellers). Now she has a new project and it deserves your support.

Backpack Full of Cash is a look at the privatization of education in America, how the drive to make schools into a profitable business is dismantling one of our most basic and foundational institutions. 



The film takes us to New Orleans, Philadelphia and Nashville, a pretty perfect selection of cities to give the real sense of the forms the privatization movement takes.

And I particularly love the central question that the film settles on, because I have the same question:

Why dismantle the public school system?  Why not make it work well for every child instead?

The marquee name attached to the film is Matt Damon, who reads the narration. It's a nice gesture and a necessary feature in today's market ("Oh, the narrator is someone I've heard of, so this must be a real movie.")




The production is three days away from the end of its Kickstarter campaign to collect the $31,600 needed to finalize this production. This is a story that needs to be told and a film that needs to be out there for the public to see. I'm asking you, if you're at all a fan of this blog, to head over to Kickstarter and make a contribution, however small. We can't all be filmmakers and we can't all be activists, but we can all kick in a few bucks to help amplify the voices of people who speak out on important issues. This is a story that needs to be told-- help tell it.

I've put the link in several times, but here it is again. If you're worried about public education in a Trumpian world, here's an actual concrete thing you can do to help. If you're concerned about the health of public education, here's a concrete thing you can do to help. If you want to protect the promise of public education, here's a concrete thing you can do to help. Please help.



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Trump Teaching Lesson
by Peter Greene / 5h
There's an aspect of Candidate Trump's success that I think is both under-discussed and also a good lesson/reminder for those of us in the teaching biz. Trump never made folks feel stupid. Seriously. Members of the public would figuratively run up to him hollering, "Good lord, did you see this terrible story on the internet," and without batting an eye, Trump would respond "I know!! Incredible, ri
The Open Door
by Peter Greene / 5h
I have news. Not political news or even education news, but completely personal news. My wife and I are expecting. In fact, we're expecting twins. This is only partially a surprise. There was some science involved, but science does 
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Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare | 89.3 KPCC

Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare | 89.3 KPCC:

Growing up in California in 2016: Here's how kids fare

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What is it like to be a child growing up in California in 2016? A new report that analyzes indicators of child well-being paints a bleak picture: Large numbers of Californian children live in poverty, and educational and health outcomes statewide are, at best, fair.
The non-partisan research group Children Now conducted the analysis. It used census, American Community Service, Department of Education, school district and other data sources to build a picture of how children are faring statewide across a broad range of economic, health and education outcomes.
The report asks questions like: How many children attend preschool? How many children are reading at grade level by third grade? Do children have health insurance for the entire year? Are newborns exclusively breastfed? (You can see a full list of the indicators the group used to gauge child well-being here.)
The Californian counties where children are most likely to be thriving are in Northern California. Marin, Napa and San Mateo counties have the fewest kids in poverty and more kids reading at grade level in third grade. In these counties, more children have health insurance, are a healthy weight, and were probably breast-fed.
In Southern California counties, children don’t fare so well. In Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, about one quarter of all children live in poverty. Children in Kern county were worse off, 33 percent were living in “concentrated poverty.”
Report author Jessica Mindnich said when a child lives in a neighborhood where 30 percent or more of children are impoverished, it makes life harder. “This impacts the resources in your direct community,” she said.
The report also tracked early education indicators, and just over half of all LA County and San Bernardino children aged zero to five were read to every day. Yet in San Bernardino county, just 36 percent of three and four year-olds attend preschool, and that very same number of children are reading at grade level in third grade.
L.A. County children are better off – 52 percent of three and four year-olds were enrolled in preschool last year. The statewide average for preschool is just 47 percent of all children. Report authors noted they did not assess the quality of the preschool programs; rather they looked simply whether children are enrolled.
Yet stark disparities exist in educational outcomes for children in counties statewide. Even in Orange County, which has the best scores for Southern California counties, with 50 percent of their third graders reading at grade level, children of color are not performing as well as their white peers. Nearly 70 percent of white third graders are hitting that benchmark, compared to only 39 percent of African-American students in this age group and to 31 percent of Latino third graders.
This is not unique to Orange County, Mindnich said. “It’s the same pattern across all counties and we’re trying to make the point that we need schools to make sure that they are meeting the needs of all our kids.”
When it comes to the health of children, one area stood out. Low-income kids in Southern California are not seeing a dentist. In Riverside and San Bernardino counties, only one quarter of poor children aged zero to three had a dentist visit in the last year.
While nearly all L.A. County children had health insurance year-round, only 11 percent of children with asthma were given a written asthmatic plan – the state average for children in this category is 26 percent.
Check out how children in your country are doing here.
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The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. | the becoming radical

The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. | the becoming radical:

The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A.

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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale offers a not-to-distant dystopia in which Atwood explores the rise of a theocracy as a sanctuary for the declining white race; the work is a tour-de-force confrontation of sexism and misogyny as well as dramatization of the relationship between power and language, including the power inherent in what humans name* and what humans taboo.
The central handmaid of the tale, June/Offred, narrates her own journey through hell that includes being assigned to a Commander who monthly is charged with attempting to impregnate his handmaid in what this new nation of Gilead calls the Ceremony, infusing the act with religious and official overtones.
However, June/Offred characterizes the Ceremony with a disturbing and clinical precision:
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body. I do not say making love, because this is not what he’s doing. Copulating too would be inaccurate, because it would imply two people and only one is involved. Nor does rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I haven’t signed up for. There wasn’t a lot of choice but there was some, and this is what I chose. (p. 94)
Many aspects of this passage are worth emphasizing, but let’s focus on the importance and value in June/Offred naming accurately this awful thing happening—and not ignore the weight of taboo language (such as the word “fucking”).
“I have guarded my name as people/ in other times kept their own clipped hair,” opens Barbara Kingsolver’s poem, “Naming Myself,” “believing the soul could be scattered/ if they were careless.”
Here too are the intersections of naming, gender, and power: why must women abandon their names in the legal/religious act of marriage while men retain theirs?
Kingsolver’s speaker, like Atwood’s narrator, both uses and values language as power—guarding a name and naming.
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The election of Donald Trump as the president of the U.S. comes in the wake of Trump making inflammatory comments about Mexicans, Muslims, and women. Nonpartisan and measured assessments of Trump’s words rightly label them as racist, xenophobic, and sexist/misogynistic.
The rise of Trump as a political leader has exposed the lingering taboo in the U.S. for naming racism, even when there is direct evidence of racist language and behavior and especially when that racism is coded (getting tough on crime, building a wall, evoking the specter of terrorism).
Serious public debate has parsed making the distinction between Trump being a racist and Trump courting and/or attracting racists, such as being endorsed by the KKK, neo-Nazi organizations, and the white nationalist movement.
A perverse shift has occurred, in fact, from the mislabeling of Barack Obama’s being elected president as proof that the U.S. is a post-racial society to Trump’s rise asking the U.S. to reconsider what counts as racism.
Trump personifies the triple-Teflon of being white, male, and affluent, most notably in the power of those attributes to deflect the label “racist.” As Trump himself asserted defiantly:
I can never apologize for the truth. I don’t mind apologizing for things. But I can’t apologize for the truth. I said tremendous crime is coming across. Everybody knows that’s true. And it’s happening all the time. So, why, when I mention, all of a sudden I’m a racist. I’m not a racist. I don’t have a racist bone in my body.
Trump’s own strategy frames his words and behavior as “truth,” therefore not “racist.”
The election of Trump grounded significantly on white voter support, including a majority of white women, adds another layer of tension in that if Trump has voiced racism and/or practiced racism, how complicit are The “R” Word as Taboo in Twenty-First Century U.S.A. | the becoming radical:


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Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School

Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School:

Federal segregation complaint filed against Red Bank Charter School

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Two groups have filed a federal complaint against Red Bank Charter School, alleging discriminatory practices in enrollment and asking that the school be closed.
Fair Schools Red Bank, a group of parents at Red Bank Borough Public Schools, and the Latino Coalition of New Jersey filed the complaint to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday, accusing the charter school of violating a consent order requiring it to have demographics that match the school-age population of Red Bank. The complaint blamed the charter school for making Red Bank "the most segregated school district in the state of New Jersey."
Red Bank Charter School Principal Meredith Pennotti defended her school in a statement.
"It’s sad this small group that seems bent on further dividing the community has chosen to file a meritless complaint against our school," she said. "The fact is our student body more closely reflects the borough's school-age population than the district schools.
"How this group can willfully ignore this fact is truly an indication of how desperate they have become in their zeal to close a school that has served children of Red Bank well for nearly two decades."
Data from the state Department of Education show divergent demographics in the two schools, both of which serve students from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade.
Red Bank Borough Schools' population is 89 percent economically disadvantaged, compared to just 41 percent at the charter school. Economically disadvantaged students are those who get free or reduced-price lunch.
Additionally, 38 percent of district school students have limited proficiency in English; only 3.5 percent of the charter school students fall into this category. The charter school is 50 percent white, while the borough schools are about 7 percent white, enrollment data show. Hispanics comprise 81 percent of the borough schools, compared to 38.5 percent of the charter school. Both schools are about 10 percent black.
The Justice Department acknowledged receiving a copy of the complaint, but wouldn't comment about any action it would take. The New Jersey Department of Education also received the complaint, but declined to address it.
"I'm amenable to anything that just levels the playing field," said Wayne Woolley, a parent with daugthers at Red Bank Borough Schools and a member of Fair Schools Red Bank. He added that enrollment at the charter schools "violates my fundamental sense of fairness."
The complaint says that the charter school has a higher percentage of white students than the school-age population of the borough and a lower percentage of Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students. Woolley said those numbers are based on research done by the borough school and factors in Red Bank students who don't attend the borough school.
In an op-ed written last week in the Press, Pennotti said the school-age population of Red Bank is 41 percent white, 40 percent Latino and 18 percent black, which is close to the charter school's demographics. That data come from the Census Bureau and the complaint says it includes everyone under the age of 18 in Red Bank, not just school-aged kids.
In an effort to make the school more diverse, Red Bank Charter began a weighted lottery this year that gives preference to economically disadvantaged students. Pennotti acknowledged changing the schools demographics to better mirror Red Bank will be a slow process.
“How long is that going to take? Forever," she said. "But we’re working on it.”
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