{"id":177585,"date":"2019-08-11T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/11\/segregation-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-charter-schools\/"},"modified":"2019-08-11T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:59:00","slug":"segregation-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-charter-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/11\/segregation-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-charter-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Segregation is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Charter Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Case in point, Sausalito, California, where public schools have become almost completely minority, while the charter school is plurality white. <\/div>\n<p>The state AG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/calif-town-creates-a-segregated-school-while-sending-money-to-charter-state-attorney-general-declares\/2019\/08\/09\/1c40da1e-ba23-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html\">has issued a report declaring that the city deliberately segregated their schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, racism is a thing of the past:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Just two taxpayer-funded schools serve the quaint town of Sausalito, Calif. There\u2019s a charter school where a plurality of the students are white, and a traditional district school where almost no one is.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s no accident, according to California\u2019s attorney general, who alleges the school district knowingly created and maintained a segregated school, and starved it of funding needed for basic necessities while funneling extra money to the charter school.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Sausalito Marin City School District agreed to a settlement that orders officials to unravel the segregation, compensate graduates who were harmed by it and build a more equitable system. If the district fails, the charter school might lose its Sausalito campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The settlement, filed in state court Friday, is a rare example of government-mandated school desegregation in recent years. It has been several decades since the state of California forced a district to make these sorts of changes, a Becerra spokeswoman said. Nationwide, most court-ordered desegregation plans have been lifted. The Supreme Court has barred school systems from considering race in student assignment plans, even when the goal is desegregation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only people who believe that racism is over in the United States are racists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Sausalito, California, where public schools have become almost completely minority, while the charter school is plurality white. The state AG has issued a report declaring that the city deliberately segregated their schools. Clearly, racism is a thing of the past: Just two taxpayer-funded schools serve the quaint town of Sausalito, Calif. There\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,397,398],"class_list":["post-177585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-education","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}