| Congress is considering new charter legislation, awarding more money to the charter sector, which will operate with minimal accountability or transparency. The bill has already passed the House of Representatives with a bipartisan majority and now moves to the Senate. Make no mistake: on the 60th anniversary of the Brown decision, Congress is set to expand a dual school system. One sector, privately managed, may choose its students, exclude those who might pull down its test scores, and kick out those it doesn't want. The other sector--the public schools--must take in all students, even those kicked out by the charters. This is a dual school system, one bound by laws, the other deregulated. One free to select the "winners, " the other bound to accept all.Should we acquiesce in a social arrangement that we know is wrong? Should we celebrate the official approval of segregated schools? ... |
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