In the brouhaha over last week’s UCLA Civil Rights Project report on charter school “segregation,” one talking point seems unimpeachable: that it’s paternalistic or worse for Gary Orfield and his team at UCLA to want to keep minority parents from choosing their preferred schools because they serve “too many” black or brown children…That makes sense on the surface, but there’s a problem: we in the charter school movement aren’t so different. After all, we can’t “tolerate” it when parents choose schools that are extremely low-performing, even if they find them “better and safer” than their other alternatives....Read it here.
