Of course in reality nothing could be further from the truth.
Via WFB:
A George Soros-backed advocacy group filed complaints in three cities alleging that charter schools are racist.
The Advancement Project is asking the Justice Department to investigate the closures of failing public schools in New Orleans, Chicago, and Newark on the grounds that the closings are racially motivated.
The group, whose mission is to dismantle “structural racism” and promote “racial justice,” filed complaints under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act on behalf of “Journey for Justice,” a coalition of grassroots organizations supported by teachers unions.
“The coalition has come together because, across our communities, education ‘reformers’ and privatizers are targeting neighborhood schools filled with children of color, and leaving behind devastation,” the organization wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, attached to the New Orleans complaint.
“By stealth, seizure, and sabotage, these corporate profiteers are closing and privatizing our schools, keeping public education for children of color, not only separate, not only unequal, but increasingly not public at all,” they said.
The organization compared charter schools to prisons.
“Adding insult to injury, the perpetrators of this injustice have cloaked themselves in the language of the Civil Rights Movement,” the Advancement Project wrote. “But too many of the charter and privately-managed schools that have multiplied as replacements for our beloved neighborhood schools are test prep mills that promote prison-like environments, and seem to be geared at keeping young people of color controlled, undereducated, and dehumanized.”
To give you an idea how bad some of our unionized public schools are, here is a story about Washington DC, where they spend almost $30K per pupil and 83% of eighth graders are not proficient in reading.
The public schools in Washington, D.C., spent $29,349 per pupil in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the latest data from National Center for Education Statistics, but in 2013 fully 83 percent of the eighth graders in these schools were not “proficient” in reading and 81 percent were not “proficient” in math.
These are the government schools in our nation’s capital city — where for decades politicians of both parties have obstreperously pushed for more federal involvement in education and more federal spending on education.
Government has manifestly failed the families who must send their children to these schools, and the children who must attend them.
Under the auspices of the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government periodically tests elementary and high school students in various subjects, including reading and math. These National Assessment of Educational Progress tests are scored on a scale of 500, and student achievement levels are rated as “basic,” “proficient” and “advanced.”