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Huh. So white parents dont want to send their kids to schools that are filled with gang bangers, criminals and thugs so the "Community Leaders" step forward to proclaim the obvious. It must be racism!! Oh my! Oh no. Family structure, socio-economic conditions and the lack of quality education wouldnt have anything at all to do with it.
Its simple racism. Of course.
I like the part at the bottom myself. Researchers dont know if demographics plays a part in the decision to go charter. Well of course it does. Parents dont want their children going to school with a bunch of worthless fuckwit gang bangers. RACE has less to do with it than CLASS.
It just so happens that race is a good indication of class it seems. But, as so often happens, rather than address the underlying causes the "Community Leaders" throw out the race card. Hey, its easiest that way.....
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/08/20100208charterschools0208.html
Report: Racial gap grows in charter schools
The racial gap is widening with the increase in charter schools in Arizona and other states due to a lack of regulation and enforcement of existing civil-rights regulations, a group of researchers based at the University of California-Los Angeles said in a new report.
The UCLA Civil Rights Project report, "Choice Without Equity," revealed what researchers deemed a troubling pattern of racial stratification in charter schools across the country.
They said they believe state and federal intervention can turn the trend around.
Gary Orfield, the project's co-director, said the Obama administration's recent grant programs, such as Race to the Top, and charter-school grants that encourage the expansion of charters and development of new ones, are a timely opportunity for regulation.
"We don't want Race to the Top to become a race to the past," Orfield said, referring to the new federal grant program meant to raise school achievement.
Based on data collected from 2000 to 2007 by the National Center for Education Statistics, the researchers found patterns that indicate charter schools in Arizona, California and other Western states have become havens for "White flight."
Of the 98,728 students enrolled in Arizona charter schools in 2007, 52 percent were White, 34 percent Latino, 7 percent Black, 4 percent American Indian and 3 percent Asian.
Orfield said this racial gap has been widening over three decades.
"The (Southwest) region has experienced very sharp increases in segregation of Latino students since the 1970s, and it is usually segregation by both race and poverty, and sometimes language as well," Orfield wrote.
He said students in segregated schools "often have few choices of schooling that offers a better chance to graduate, be ready for college, and be prepared to learn, live and work in an extremely diverse society."
In addition to recommending new regulation, Orfield recommended that the Obama administration and states invest more in magnet schools because they have a stronger record than charters when it comes to ensuring equity.
The Arizona Charter Schools Association objected to the report and the recommendations.
"I think that (more regulation) would almost take away what the charter-school movement is about, and that is choice," association spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said.
She noted that some charters in Arizona have large numbers of minorities or low-income children.
Researchers also had said in their report that although a majority of the students in Arizona charter schools are White, a few charter schools have a majority of ethnic minority students - which researchers refer to as "isolation."
Case in point: Tertulia Pre-College Community Intermediate Campus in Phoenix. The school serves mostly Latino students, and a number of them are low-income, according to state data on greatschools.org.
Grisham noted that another school that fits the isolation trend is Children First Academy in Phoenix, which serves a high number of students who aren't fluent in English; many of them are low-income.
Researchers said the pattern of segregation in charter schools has emerged as public support for "school choice" is on the rise. The goal of this educational movement is to give families opportunities to choose which school their children will attend.
Arizona is a pro-school-choice state, and the number of charter schools and number of students attending them have more than doubled in the state since 2000.
The word "segregation" tends to stir up memories of separate schools for African-American and White students in the years leading up to the 1960s civil-rights movement, but this recent trend is different because parents are choosing where to send their children.
This has left researchers pondering how race plays into school choice. They admitted they cannot explain whether parents enroll their children in the schools with conscious consideration of demographics.
Its simple racism. Of course.
I like the part at the bottom myself. Researchers dont know if demographics plays a part in the decision to go charter. Well of course it does. Parents dont want their children going to school with a bunch of worthless fuckwit gang bangers. RACE has less to do with it than CLASS.
It just so happens that race is a good indication of class it seems. But, as so often happens, rather than address the underlying causes the "Community Leaders" throw out the race card. Hey, its easiest that way.....
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/08/20100208charterschools0208.html
Report: Racial gap grows in charter schools
The racial gap is widening with the increase in charter schools in Arizona and other states due to a lack of regulation and enforcement of existing civil-rights regulations, a group of researchers based at the University of California-Los Angeles said in a new report.
The UCLA Civil Rights Project report, "Choice Without Equity," revealed what researchers deemed a troubling pattern of racial stratification in charter schools across the country.
They said they believe state and federal intervention can turn the trend around.
Gary Orfield, the project's co-director, said the Obama administration's recent grant programs, such as Race to the Top, and charter-school grants that encourage the expansion of charters and development of new ones, are a timely opportunity for regulation.
"We don't want Race to the Top to become a race to the past," Orfield said, referring to the new federal grant program meant to raise school achievement.
Based on data collected from 2000 to 2007 by the National Center for Education Statistics, the researchers found patterns that indicate charter schools in Arizona, California and other Western states have become havens for "White flight."
Of the 98,728 students enrolled in Arizona charter schools in 2007, 52 percent were White, 34 percent Latino, 7 percent Black, 4 percent American Indian and 3 percent Asian.
Orfield said this racial gap has been widening over three decades.
"The (Southwest) region has experienced very sharp increases in segregation of Latino students since the 1970s, and it is usually segregation by both race and poverty, and sometimes language as well," Orfield wrote.
He said students in segregated schools "often have few choices of schooling that offers a better chance to graduate, be ready for college, and be prepared to learn, live and work in an extremely diverse society."
In addition to recommending new regulation, Orfield recommended that the Obama administration and states invest more in magnet schools because they have a stronger record than charters when it comes to ensuring equity.
The Arizona Charter Schools Association objected to the report and the recommendations.
"I think that (more regulation) would almost take away what the charter-school movement is about, and that is choice," association spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said.
She noted that some charters in Arizona have large numbers of minorities or low-income children.
Researchers also had said in their report that although a majority of the students in Arizona charter schools are White, a few charter schools have a majority of ethnic minority students - which researchers refer to as "isolation."
Case in point: Tertulia Pre-College Community Intermediate Campus in Phoenix. The school serves mostly Latino students, and a number of them are low-income, according to state data on greatschools.org.
Grisham noted that another school that fits the isolation trend is Children First Academy in Phoenix, which serves a high number of students who aren't fluent in English; many of them are low-income.
Researchers said the pattern of segregation in charter schools has emerged as public support for "school choice" is on the rise. The goal of this educational movement is to give families opportunities to choose which school their children will attend.
Arizona is a pro-school-choice state, and the number of charter schools and number of students attending them have more than doubled in the state since 2000.
The word "segregation" tends to stir up memories of separate schools for African-American and White students in the years leading up to the 1960s civil-rights movement, but this recent trend is different because parents are choosing where to send their children.
This has left researchers pondering how race plays into school choice. They admitted they cannot explain whether parents enroll their children in the schools with conscious consideration of demographics.
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