“The Civil Rights Project at the University of California Los Angeles, which has documented charter school segregation for years, has found that in several western and southern states white students are disproportionately represented in charter schools. These patterns “suggest that charters serve as havens for white flight from public schools,” according to a 2010 report from the […]
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What’s Wrong with School Choice? Here’s Wha...
The idea of giving students a choice of where to go school — with public funds — may sound good, but there are problems attached. The following post explains some of them. It was written by David A. Pickler, president of the National School Boards Association and former chairman and now member of Tennessee’s Shelby […]
Forsyth County schools resegregated, but opinions differ on whether that’s a probl...
Many of Forsyth County’s public schools have resegregated over the last 40 years as national court decisions, and local political ones, favored neighborhood schools over racially and economically balanced ones. Although schools with many poor students clearly score lower on tests, education experts and community leaders disagree on whether putting students of different demographics together […]