Is It Really a Choice?

If you think the school choice movement and policies are about allowing parents to use tax dollars to get the best education for their children, you’d better listen to this episode to hear what’s really going on. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they show the link between segregation academies of the Jim Crow South era and the systemic racism behind today’s proposed school choice policies. Though these policies could potentially re-create highly segregated schools, listeners will learn the surprising hidden purpose and true end game that exposes school choice as the ultimate bait and switch tactic. Go to https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ to get the history they didn’t teach you in school. Citations Are US Taxpayers Funding Modern Segregation Academies In North Carolina? Charter Schools and Segregation: What the Research Says - FutureEd Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Does Integration Still Matter in Public Schools? | Separate and Unequal | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected - The Atlantic How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education In Indiana, school choice means segregation - kappanonline.org In the 1950s, rather than integrate some public schools, Virginia closed them | Race | The Guardian Massive Resistance – Encyclopedia Virginia Massive Resistance in a Small Town | The National Endowment for the Humanities Racism and the Charter School Movement: Unveiling the Myths Reparations Are Possible—They Happened in Virginia - Pacific Standard Schools are still segregated, and black children are paying a price | Economic Policy Institute Segregation academy - Wikipedia The Closing of Prince Edward County's Schools | Virginia Museum of History & Culture The Ongoing Debate Over School Choice p>

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