My jaw did the proverbial drop when I read this opening sentence in a front page story in Sunday’s Albany Times Union: “Albany’s charter schools have created a second school system that is almost entirely segregated.”…Now that nearly a quarter of Albany’s public school kids, the ones local teacher unions and Albany Public School administrators said were uneducable (because they were poor and black)—now that the creaming issue is off the table and those same kids are beating the socks off even their white counterparts on academic achievement tests, we get S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N. Can’t poor black kids catch a break here?...
