On May 12, 2010, at 6:40 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> Press Release: New Report Explains that Charter Schools' Political
> Success is a Civil Rights Failure
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> http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/pressreleases/pressrelease20100204-report.html
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> Los Angeles—February 4, 2010— Today, the Civil Rights Project/
> Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued "Choice Without Equity:
> Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,"
> a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data
> and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District
> of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large
> enrollments of charters. The report found that charter schools
> continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language,
> and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in
> virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country.
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> "President Barack Obama just delivered his budget to the U.S.
> Congress which increases both incentives and resources to create
> more charter schools," Erica Frankenberg, co-author of the report
> said. "This report should be considered in evaluating new federal
> incentives to states that encourage the expansion of charter
> schools, such as the Race to the Top initiative."
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> The study's key findings suggest that charter schools, particularly
> those in the western United States are havens for white re-
> segregation from public schools; requirements for providing
> essential equity data to the federal government go unmet across the
> nation; and magnet schools are overlooked, in spite of showing
> greater levels of integration and academic achievement than charters.
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