This week in the war on workers: Black Lives Matter and the NAACP say no to more charter schools

Here’s some important pushback on the efforts of the corporate education policy world to brand its privatization agenda as a civil rights issue:

A few weeks ago, the Movement for Black Lives, the network that also includes Black Lives Matter organizers, released its first-ever policy agenda. Among the organization's six demands and dozens of policy recommendations was a bold education-related stance: a moratorium on both charter schools and public school closures. Charters, the agenda argues, represent a shift of public funds and control over to private entities. Along with "an end to the privatization of education," the Movement for Black Lives organizers are demanding increased investments in traditional community schools and the health and social services they provide....
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