{"id":181202,"date":"2016-09-02T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/02\/what-a-surprise-7\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:17:00","slug":"what-a-surprise-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/02\/what-a-surprise-7\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Marin County has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/State-report-finds-resource-disparity-in-a-Marin-9193904.php?cmpid=nl_top\">stripping resources from largely black schools to funnel them to a largely white charter school<\/a>.  This is a feature, not a bug<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Members of the community and school officials will meet Wednesday evening to discuss a scathing report that found a Marin County school district has been funneling resources to a Sausalito charter school away from a nearby Marin City school that\u2019s attended by a majority of black students, potentially segregating the schools in violation of federal civil rights laws.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The focus of the report, authored and issued this month by the state\u2019s Fiscal Crisis &amp; Management Assistance Team, adds to the problems facing the Sausalito Marin City School District, which boasts one K-8 school \u2014 Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. in Marin City \u2014 and was recently embarrassed when its superintendent resigned after being indicted in February on a felony charge in San Diego County.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In looking at the relationship between the district\u2019s board and Sausalito\u2019s Willow Creek Academy, an independent charter school attended by a majority of white students, investigators found that leaders of the charter school \u201cexercise significant control\u201d over most of the district\u2019s board members, making for a \u201cclearly biased financial arrangement\u201d that benefits Willow Creek Academy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Students at the underperforming Bayside MLK, meanwhile, continue to fall behind as money is diverted from the school to pay for the charter school.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the hidden appeals of the charter school movement that is its implication that they will resegregate public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Marin County has been stripping resources from largely black schools to funnel them to a largely white charter school. This is a feature, not a bug Members of the community and school officials will meet Wednesday evening to discuss a scathing report that found a Marin County school district has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,966,970,968,969],"tags":[875],"class_list":["post-181202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-charter-schools","category-corruption","category-education","category-evil","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181202"}],"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=181202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}