NAACP REPORT FINDS «WIDE RANGE OF PROBLEMS» WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS: After calling for a moratorium
on charter school expansion last year, the NAACP today is releasing a highly anticipated report that calls for the elimination of for - profit charter school operators.
Not exact matches
Support for Question 2, which would lift the state's current cap
on charter school expansion, has remained static at 41 percent, while opposition has grown from 48 percent to 52 percent since
last month's poll.
The
school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and
school choice advocates hit a trifecta
last week» after
expansions to the
charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred
on the same day.
Last year, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium
on the
expansion of
charter schools until problems with accountability and the loss of funding from traditional public
schools are addressed.
The civil rights organization has been weighing in
on school choice at least since
last year, when it called for a moratorium
on charter school expansion.
Last fall, the executive board of the NAACP adopted a resolution proposed at their national convention, calling for a moratorium
on the
expansion of
charter schools, and citing concerns about their impact
on public
school districts, racial disparities and other issues.
Last fall, the NAACP called for a moratorium
on the
expansion of
school choice in the United States, viewing the
charter sector as a threat to our hallowed system of public education — as though it's ever been what it claims to be for Black students and families — and drawing an inexplicable line in the sand between two parts of itself.