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The Minneapolis public school system is experiencing a massive student exodus and guess where they’re going. "About 70 percent of the kids leaving the district are headed to charter schools," Beena Raghavendran and Mary Jo Webster report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Many of these independent public schools have established themselves in north Minneapolis, catering to black parents concerned about academic achievement, discipline and safety in the district schools." "Harvest Network has three schools and plans to grow. It aims to educate 3,800 of the kids on the North Side by 2025. That would cut MPS’ North Side enrollment by...

Stupid Black Parents At least that’s the impression one got when visiting the New Jersey Education Association web site before a couple of days ago. The teachers union made an admirable attempt to involve parents in the education of their children. The site made available a brochure for PDF download called “Getting Involved In Your Child’s School”. It also came in three versions. The first was called “A Parent’s Resource”. The second was translated into Spanish, and the last version was called the “African-American Version” I say “was” because the African-American version was removed. It wasn’t removed by racists to...