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The push to open so many charter schools, when only 17 percent of them academically outperform public schools, is tied to profiting from dark suffering. Corporate school reformers prey on the suffering and hopes of dark communities, and just like the subprime-mortgages practice of predatory lending, they lack regulation and oversight. Once the charter school bubble bursts, dark communities will be left with what education researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings calls “education debt.”42
Rita Mccord
This is in alignment with what Kendi refers to as “the conjoined twins” in tying capitalism with racism. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders had the right antiracism policies... If being antiracist means being an abolitionist teacher, then it is time to support progressives who understand the right policies! Do this at all levels of government.
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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