tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618709929318397424.post1918180013343181385..comments2023-10-31T07:43:37.520-04:00Comments on NJ Left Behind: Black and Latino Parents and Educators Deride NAACP's Call for a Charter School MoratoriumNJ Left Behindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16739701636089453850noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618709929318397424.post-70546572240746253532016-08-13T09:01:59.999-04:002016-08-13T09:01:59.999-04:00From a former leader of a New Orleans charter scho...From a former leader of a New Orleans charter school group, via the Hechinger Report:<br /><br />"The Black Lives Matter collective – representing approximately 50 organizations – released an official platform last week titled a Vision for Black Lives. Its education section called for an end to the privatization of education and petitioned for more community control of schools. A list of demands included “a moratorium on charter schools and school closures.” The NAACP also took a stand against charters at their annual national convention by approving a resolution that calls for a moratorium on the expansion of privately managed charters. It has yet to be approved by the national board."<br /><br />“ Education 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 incarceration rates rose.”<br /><br />"What took black activists so long to turn their attention to how black lives are discounted in school reform? One reason: the imposition of charters — which have expanded much faster in cities versus suburban and rural areas — undermined the power of black communities to fight back."<br /><br />Source: http://hechingerreport.org/why-the-black-lives-matter-move…/Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094617130774541174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8618709929318397424.post-13718478862109479542016-08-12T10:35:06.200-04:002016-08-12T10:35:06.200-04:00Charter schools, stop and frisk, and for profit pr...Charter schools, stop and frisk, and for profit prisons are a part of the same policy continuum. These policies are forced onto black and Latino communities in which we dare not speak up. The history of the market being unfair to vulnerable communities is well documented.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16406097435406026576noreply@blogger.com