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  • Why the Black Lives Matter Movement Has to Take on Charter Schools

    Black school systems are treated like black men and women in America. Urban schools are broken up, experimented on and policed in efforts to improve them. The reformers expect students, teachers and parents to be grateful and accept test-score growth in return, just as black communities were expected to be grateful when crime dropped even as…

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    Andre Perry

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  • Pushback Against the NAACP's Anti-Charter School Stance Is Misguided and Self-Serving

    In calling for a moratorium on all charter schools, the NAACP has declared, after years of discussion, that it’s concerned enough about local governance, millionaire charter school board members and public fund-spending to take a stand. While there are a plethora of arguments to be made, for me it all comes down to following the money. Full…

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    The Root Staff

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