School "Reform" is Disappearing Black & Hispanic Educators in NYC.

[Hannah Bell]

NYC is:

White 45%
Black 27%
Asian 10%
Hispanic (any race) 27%

Joel Klein became Chancellor in 2002.

White & Asian new hires up, Black & Hispanic down. Precipitously.

What kind of "Civil Rights Movement of Our Time" is this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9329366


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[maryf]

1. several purposes being served...

It would seem? KnR (thanks for posting)

[Reader Rabbit]

2. Depressing as hell.

K&R, by the way.

[w4rma]

3. Charter Schools = Segregated Schools. (nt)

[Starry Messenger]

4. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

:sarcasm: k & r

[Catshrink]

5. IIRC, similar things happened in Chicago

Here you go:

Black Chicago Teachers Win Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firing of Black Teachers

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

As Pauline Lippman explains at length elsewhere in this issue of BAR, the bipartisan quest to first undermine, and then to privatize public education has made educational policy a crucial battleground in the struggle for democracy in the U.S. As one of the laboratories for neoliberal school reform, my home town of Chicago owes the nation a profound apology. There, City Hall assumed mayoral control over public schools in the mid 1990s, replacing the professional educators at its helm with a “CEO” and flunkies from the mayor's staff.

A decade earlier under reform mayor Harold Washington, Chicagoans won locally elected parent councils with teacher representation, democratic bodies with veto over principals' contracts and the expenditures of some Title 1 funds. The most economical way around these local democratic institutions, City Hall decided, was to dissolve entire public schools, firing their staffs wholesale and replacing them with charters and other schools not subject to the law, or accountable to parents

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/black-chicago-teachers-win-lawsuit-against-arne-duncans-mass-firing-black-teachers

Originally posted by Omaha Steve in the Labor forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x28988

[Hannah Bell]

7. new orleans as well.

[Tatiana]

6. You see the same trend in Chicago under Huberman (and Duncan before him).

I don't think it's coincidence.

[fascisthunter]

8. Don't Worry, Superman will Save the Day

not

[ThomCat]

9. One more sign of how evil he has been for the schools in NYC.

Is there any doubt left? :(

The racism. The union busting. Selling out schools to rich people for profit. Destroying special ed programs, especially for kids with Autism.

What else could he do to finally make people see how evil he is?

[MattBaggins]

10. That's part of the beauty of School Reform

Doesn't it just warm the cockles of the heart.

[maryf]

11. evening kick nt

[felix_numinous]

12. K + R

[Hannah Bell]

13. k

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Great big wow, Hannah

k n r too.

[lonestarnot]

15. We must stop them.

[Hannah Bell]

16. k