@NAACP calls for national moratorium on charters

[yurbud]

If charter schools are supposed to help inner city minority kids, why did the NAACP just call for a national moratorium on them?

Maybe because charter schools are more about diverting public education spending into the pockets of the already wealthy than helping kids of any race.

The NAACP got this one right. Unfortunately, the leaders of both major parties let hedge fund managers dictate public education policy instead of parents, teachers, and academics.

We need to convince Hillary to pick an actual educator for education secretary, and not another privatizer like Arne Duncan or John King.

The blogger who reported this explained what led the NAACP to this in an earlier post, and gave an excellent overview of the profit motive and players behind the education reform movement.

I don’t believe that this has been reported anywhere else. Last week at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, the delegates voted in a new resolution on charter schools. It’s approval as policy will not be official until the National Board meeting in the Fall of 2016. However, this is a big news story that (I suspect because of the political conventions) has not yet entered the traditional media.

Yesterday in the post How will history remember the @NAACP on charters? I discussed the 2010 and 2014 NAACP charter school resolutions. The 2016 NAACP convention voted and approved the following resolution. I am honored it originated from the California Hawaii NAACP, where I serve as Education Chair.





The 2016 NAACP delegates at the national convention called for a moratorium on the proliferation of privately managed charters.

So for those of you who emailed me yesterday saying that NAACP chapters in various places have gone rogue supporting charters— know that the force of the national organization is NOT on their side.

https://cloakinginequity.com/2016/07/29/breaking-news-naacp-calls-for-national-moratorium-on-charters/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. K&R. nt

[yurbud]

2. great tag line. It needs "said no one ever" at the end.

We get gradual change, the rich get $700 billion for a bailout, wars, whatever, at the snap of their fingers.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. You and I would probably never say something like that. At least not

seriously. But this is what we've been sold for decades now and quite a number of people seem just fine with it, unfortunately.

[yurbud]

4. I think people are starting to figure it out.