NAACP Set To Denounce Charter Schools, Although Blacks Love Them
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Blake Neff
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5:58 PM 10/14/2016
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US President Barack Obama talks with Akira Cooper during a visit to a classroom at the Community Children US President Barack Obama talks with Akira Cooper during a visit to a classroom at the Community Children's Center, one of the country's oldest Head Start providers. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is poised to call for a national moratorium on charter school openings, even though charter schools are very popular with black parents.
Polls have repeatedly shown that, among blacks, support for charter schools is substantially higher than opposition. In heavily-black cities like Washington, D.C., many parents have voted with their feet, transferring their students into charter schools rather than keep them in standard public schools that are often viewed as failing. Nationwide, roughly a quarter of charter school students are black, even though black children are just 15 percent of public school enrollment overall.
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