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The ACLU: Complaint Says Charter Schools Are Resegregating Public Education
Schools, Race And Integration: Complaint Says Charter Schools Are Resegregating Public EducationCharter schools are often promoted as a tool to address educational inequities, but a potential precedent-setting legal case launched this week says the opposite. In filings with the U.S. Department of Education, two Delaware nonprofit groups allege that some of the state's publicly funded, privately managed schools are actively resegregating the education system -- and in a way that violates federal civil rights law.
The complaint, by the Delaware branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Community Legal Aid Society, cites data showing that more than three-quarters of Delaware's charter schools are "racially identifiable" -- a term that describes schools whose demographics are substantially different from the surrounding community. According to the complaint, "High-performing charter schools are almost entirely racially identifiable as white" while "low-income students and students with disabilities are disproportionately relegated to failing charter schools and charter schools that are racially identifiable as African-American or Hispanic."
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In 2010, for example, a University of Colorado report analyzing charter schools from across the country found that "as compared with the public school district in which the charter school resided, the charter schools were substantially more segregated by race, wealth, disabling condition and language." Similarly, in reviewing a decade worth of research about charter schools, George Washington University education researcher Iris Rotberg earlier this year concluded that "charter schools often lead to increased school segregation ... and lead to the stratification of students who were previously in integrated environments."
More:
http://www.ibtimes.com/schools-race-integration-complaint-says-charter-schools-are-resegregating-public-1736791?utm_content=bufferaade9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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ACLU a lot and appreciate the hell out of the ACLU most often fighting for what I believe in. It's one of the few political organizations I still have on my credit card for a monthly donation, another notable being Amnesty International. (If I had more money, I'd make it a larger donation, even though I do disagree on occasion.) I hope more and more people support those organizations.
Meanwhile, about segregated education:
Segregated private education sucks.
Segregated public education sucks even worse.
Segregated education on public money for private profit? 
Never saw this one coming.
Not.
