History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Data don’t tell full story in charter ’segregation’ study
- 02-08-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Anti-charter school boards and superintendents no doubt are bookmarking a report that found that charter schools nationwide and in California are more racially and ethnically segregated than traditional public schools. They’ll cite the study, by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, as a rationale for denying a charter application or creating new demographic obstacles, under the guise of integration, that many urban charter schools cannot overcome. That would be disastrous for minority families who choose charters as an alternative to their neighborhood failing schools. "Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards” found that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in nearly every state and large metropolitan area in the country. Nationally, 70 percent of black charter school students attend schools where at least 90 percent of students are minorities. (more...)
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