The Albert Shanker Institute is noted for the high quality of the studies it releases, thanks largely to the high standards set by social scientist Matthew DiCarlo.
Its latest product is a study of school segregation in the District of Columbia.
Unlike many other studies, this one includes private and charter schools.
The press release, with a summary of results, is here:
P.S.
I said earlier there would be only one post today. This was supposed to appear tomorrow, not today. It is a good study, but I wanted you to know I meant to have only one post today and I goofed again.
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I suspect that these findings are also true for other large metro areas.
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yes.
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Makes sense.
“We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.” (Martin Luther King, 1967, Final Words of Advice).
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Segregation continues to be a problem in our country. There is very little political interest addressing the imbalances of segregation or widespread poverty. As this article points out, segregation is a problem in both public and private schools. However, the private schools have much higher rates of segregation. “In a very loose sense,” the authors explain, “D.C.’s private schools serve as the segregation equivalent of a suburb within the city.” “Choice” we know leads to higher rates of segregation as private entities often use exclusionary practices when choosing or retaining students.
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Making Puerto Rico the New New Orleans – Steal the Schools and Give Them to Big Business to Run For Profit | By Steven Singer
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/11/10/making-puerto-rico-new-new-orleans-steal-schools-and-give-them-big-business-run
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This is colonialism 2017. There’s nothing better than a natural disaster to cause enough disruption that they can steal democratic, transparent public education from the people of Puerto Rico, and replace them with cheap for profit charters. I hope people on the island have enough resolve left in them to fight back and resist.
On a better note, since it may take months to restore the grid, many residents have been opting for solar power. Solar power makes a lot of sense there.
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“Solar power makes a lot of sense.”
(minor correction)
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The right calls public schools “government schools.” Maybe the left could call private schools “segregation for money” schools.
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It is perfectly reasonable to call government-operated schools, “government schools”. Give credit where it is due.
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Those on the reactionary right call public schools “government schools.”
When you have an intruder, do you call the local police or the “government security forces.”
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It depends on the intruder. When the intruder is attempting to enter my residence, I will reach for my pistol (Government-authorized under the 2d amendment). If I need additional assistance, after I have shot the intruder, I will call the government-provided police to cart the dead body away.
If the threat is of a more general nature, I will call on the government-provided defense forces (like the US Army), to deal with the intruder.
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There is a statement in the report: Q Policymakers should consider that school segregation occurs not only between school districts within a single metropolitan region (e.g., between cities and surrounding suburbs), but also within and between the public and private school sectors. In D.C., at least, a fairly large share of the action is outside the purview of within-public sector integration. Private schools should be encouraged to expand their enrollment of minority students, and there should be efforts in both sectors to affect greater dispersion of students across schools by race and ethnicity.
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One way to encourage and facilitate more minority students to enroll at non-public schools, is to give the minority families school vouchers. see
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/education/334608-school-choice-the-fastest-track-to-integration
As long as students can only attend schools in their own neighborhoods, white children will attend school with white children, and black children, with black children.
People who champion “neighborhood schools” are fellow travelers with segregationists!
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Smart zoning policies can increase desegregation, even with neighborhood schools. Read Gerald Grant’s wonderful book “Hope and Despair in the AMERICAN City: Why There Are no Bad Schools in Wake County”
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Some people thought that cross-town bussing would end segregation. See Swann v. Mecklenburg . Bussing never worked.
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