The South rises again in charter schools

THEN, in Virginia

Two years before a federal court set a final desegregation deadline for fall 1959, local newspaper publisher J. Barrye Wall shared white county leaders’ strategy of resistance with Congressman Watkins Abbitt: “We are working [on] a scheme in which we will abandon public schools, sell the buildings to our corporation, reopen as privately operated schools with tuition grants from [Virginia] and P.E. county as the basic financial program,” he wrote. “Those wishing to go to integrated schools can take their tuition grants and operate their own schools. To hell with 'em.” 

from,
Why the Racist History of the Charter School Movement Is Never Discussed
Touted as the cure for what ails public education, charter schools have historical roots that are rarely discussed. by Christopher Bonastia

NOW, in New York

"Citizens of the World Charter Schools” has explicitly targeted a predominantly white and affluent public, in their effort to attract a majority white student body. By manipulating our demographic data to include Hasidic Jews (whose children do not attend public schools) and childless independent adults to create an inflated discrepancy between the total white population of 55% versus the 8% white students in our elementary schools, they attempt to justify their intended 55% white student body as a ‘mere reflection of the general population’.

from,
Calling All Williamsburg / Greenpoint Parents Andcommunity Members!!
Defend Our Public Schools From Profit-Driven Segregation