https://hechingerreport.org/defund-the-private-schools/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://hechingerreport.org/defund-the-private-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-17692 Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:57:27 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=72435#comment-17692 Dr. Perry posits that all private schools are by nature exclusionary and thus promote racial division and inequity. It seems that parents across the country disagree with him.
According to the NCES /US Department of Education report, nationwide enrollment of students in charter (private / public) schools was about 6% in 2017. Of those, 26% were Black, 33% were Hispanic, and 32% were White. That seems to indicate than many Black and Hispanic parents find school choice to be beneficial to their children’s education. Since charter schools have already been around for two decades, parents surely have a solid record of achievement on which to base their decisions to opt for the charter rather than the local public school.
Or would Dr. Perry have us believe he knows better how to advance the interests of an individual child than the child’s own parents do?

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