Charter Industry Sends Out Their A Team Against Civil Rights Leaders, Part I
The dollarbots inside the education reform industry mainframe have been ominously humming since the NAACP, the Urban League, and seven other civil rights organizations came out swinging against the Gates-Broad-Walton racist blueprint that Arne Duncan is trying to pass off as the inheritor of the NCLB debacle. NCLB 2.0 is planned as a policy built on the conclusion that large swaths of the American population will be losers in the Race to the Top. One of my favorite lines from the 17 page civil rights framework for education reform notes that
"If education is a civil right, children in “winning” states should not be the only ones who
have the opportunity to learn in high-quality environments."
have the opportunity to learn in high-quality environments."
But the voices of privilege are not going to give up without a battle, apparently to be waged from the protection of
