Posted on 11/26/2019 5:43:02 AM PST by karpov
ATLANTA — The night before Democratic presidential candidates took to a debate stage here last week, black and Latino charter school parents and supporters gathered in a bland hotel conference room nearby to make signs they hoped would get the politicians’ attention.
“Charter schools = self-determination,” one sign read. “Black Democrats want charters!” another blared.
At issue is the delicate politics of race and education. For more than two decades, Democrats have largely backed public charter schools as part of a compromise to deliver black and Latino families a way out of failing district schools. Charters were embraced as an alternative to the taxpayer-funded vouchers for private-school tuition supported by Republicans, who were using the issue to woo minority voters.
But this year, in a major shift, the leading Democratic candidates are backing away from charter schools, and siding with the teachers’ unions that oppose their expansion. And that has left some black and Latino families feeling betrayed.
“As a single mom with two jobs and five hustles, I’m just feeling kind of desperate,” said Sonia Tyler, who plans to enroll her children in a charter school slated to open next fall in a suburb of Atlanta. “They’re brilliant; they’re curious. It’s not fair. Why shouldn’t I have a choice?”
Charter schools, which educate over three million students, are publicly funded and privately managed — and often are not unionized. Nationally, the schools perform about the same as traditional neighborhood schools. But charter schools that serve mostly low-income children of color in large cities tend to excel academically. And bipartisan support in Washington has allowed charters to proliferate, with their waiting lists swelling into the hundreds of thousands.
Since Bill Clinton’s presidency, the charter school movement has had Democratic backing. It was central to President Barack Obama’s education legacy.
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Democrats do not want thinking minorities.
They want minorities on the wellfare and government school plantations.
Period.
Forcing a child into the jokes that are our private schools shows EXACTLY what progressives think about you.
Wherever there are black students looking for an education, there are democrats blocking the door.
Herds are much easier to control.
Well, it's because you're not raising plantation slaves like they want you to.
Vote "D", it's easier than pickin cotton.
Dems don’t want kids to escape the public plantation...err...schools.
The lying NYT tries to give Bill Clinton and other Democrats credit for charter schools.They are tied to the teachers’ unions that fight charter schools tooth and nail.
Welfare is like heroin; it seems nice at first, but once you’re hooked, you’ll do almost anything to get another fix, and you’re almost useless for anything else.
But, but, but... Elizabeth Warren sent her kids to public schools... /s
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
Think of charter schools as Uber/Lyft compared to the taxi(public )schools. Popular but governments get in the way.
The Democrats are testing the best way to infiltrate charter schools across the country, before getting everyone on board. The trick is for people to think they are getting something wonderful and then give them the Democrat brainwashing instead. They wreck everything so there is no choice after you sign on the charter school bandwagon. No choice is the only choice Democrats deliver before they kill you.
Teacher's unions AND democrats have ALWAYS stood against charter schools. What kind of koolaid is the New York Times drinking?
Blacks vs. Unions. One of the many fault lines along which the Democrat Party will eventually tear apart.
It’s been a 150 years and the Black Community still hasn’t figured out that the Party of Slavery, The Democrat party, wants to keep them On the Plantation. Pathetic.
Blacks and other minorities are beginning to realize just why the liberal Democrats locate their abortion clinics in their neighborhoods and why the liberal Democrats restrict educational choice and herd black and minority children into dysfunctional urban, union controlled public schools.
So the argument from the left is the charter schools must be held accountable just like the public schools are. Well, if the public schools were being held accountable to the level they should be, there would be no need for charter schools.
How dare you coloreds want education over indoctrination. Don’t you know your place on the Dim plantation?
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