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Ispectrum a disrace12/22/2023 ![]() The effectiveness of charter schools across ethnic and racial groups is especially important given the proportion of charter schools that are focused on serving historically under-served students. ![]() Looking specifically at the educational gains for black students and poor students (often the same) in the state and in the city of Detroit, here are some of the study’s findings from the section on “ Charter School Impact by Race/Ethnicity“: It then compared the gains that these students in charter schools made compared to their “control group,” students just like them enrolled in district-run schools. This study paired individual students in charter schools with their “virtual twins” in district-run schools, based on their gender, race, grade level, family income, and academic ability as measured by standardized tests. As the Mackinac Center’s Ben DeGrow explained in the Detroit News: The study analyzed six years of charter students’ performance and documented some impressive educational gains (“advancement”) at Michigan’s charter schools, especially some impressive “educational advancements” for the black students that the NAACP is supposed to be representing. If the NAACP had done a little homework as the Washington Post suggested, it might have looked at this 2013 study on “ Charter School Performance in Michigan” from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. Any CEO who donates to a group that opposes charters should never again whine about the “skills gap” or claim to care about education reform. The vote should cause the NAACP’s corporate donors to reconsider. The NAACP is so blinded by ideology that it is endorsing separate and unequal education for poor minority children for years to come. Considering the state of urban K-12 education, this is the equivalent of opposing Brown v. On Saturday the NAACP’s national board voted to ratify a resolution adopted at its 2016 national convention calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools. The WSJ responded today in another editorial “ The NAACP’s Disgrace“: Well, the NAACP unfortunately caved in to the well-financed, well-organized teachers unions and voted to leave millions of black children and their parents behind, trapped in failing, broken traditional public schools. It will be interesting to see if the NAACP acts in those interests or in the interests of the nearly 700,000 black families who send their children to public charter schools, and the tens of thousands more who are on waiting lists. That the beneficiaries of this rich choice are, in large part, children of color hopefully is not lost on an organization that is supposed to be looking out for the interests of minority people. We would suggest a field trip to the District, where they would see how a thriving community of charter schools has reshaped education by providing a diverse array of educational programs. Maybe it should do its homework“):īefore national board members of the NAACP gather in Cincinnati to decide whether to ratify a call for a moratorium on charter schools, they might want to do a little homework. The Washington Post also weighed in last week opposing the NAACP’s position (“ The NAACP opposes charter schools. In advocating a blanket moratorium on charters, the NAACP would fail to acknowledge what’s happening to children who need and deserve a way out of the broken schools to which they have been relegated. ![]() The New York Times editorial board also wrote last week against the NAACP’s position to oppose charters, calling it “misguided” and writing that:įor many parents and students, a charter school is the only route to a superior education. Here’s a follow up post to last Friday’s “ quotation of the day” on CD from the WSJ editorial board on the NAACP’s hostility to charter schools and its then-pending resolution calling for a nationwide moratorium on charter school expansion.
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