Today in Labor History May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education went into effect. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" public education was unconstitutional, and a violation of the 14th Amendment. The ruling reversed the 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy vs Ferguson decision. However, researchers at Stanford and USC have recently found that, in spite of this SCOTUS ruling, racial segregation in the nation’s 100 largest school districts has increased by 64% since 1988, while economic segregation increased by 50% since 1991. While residential segregation was a major driving force for school segregation in the past, the primary driving force for today’s segregation is the School Choice movement, which has allowed hundreds of charter schools to open up, many for-profit. During the 2021-2022 school year, 7.4% of all public-school students, 3.7 million kids, attended charter schools. And there tends to be much more segregation within charter schools. Additionally, there has been a decline in court oversight of segregation in schools, resulting from a number of lawsuits in the 1990s against affirmative action policies.

Https://www.vox.com/24156492/school-segregation-increasing-brown-board-of-education

#workingclass #LaborHistory #segregation #racism #schools #education #charterschools #SCOTUS #affirmativeaction #poverty #classwar #schoolchoice #privatization #BlackMastodon

Missouri education board approves first charter school in Columbia over local opposition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/04/14/missouri-education-board-approves-first-charter-school-in-columbia-over-local-opposition/

The story of Seth Andrew, a silver-tongued thief who wreaked havoc in my little Vermont town—until the FBI arrested him for stealing $218,000.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2022/08/seth-andrew

#SethAndrew #thief #MarlboroCollege #Vermont #DemocracyPrep #CharterSchools

Assim Minas Gerais leiloa suas escolas

https://outraspalavras.net/alemdamercadoria/assim-minas-gerais-leiloa-suas-escolas/

The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.educationnext.org/the-classical-learning-test-takes-aim-at-the-sat-act-duopoly/

LAUSD Board Denies Charter Renewal, Approves Union Contracts Amid Carvalho Investigation

📰 Original title: Carvalho probe looms over LAUSD meeting as labor talks, charter renewal demand attention

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/lausd-board-denies-charter-renewal-approves-union-contracts-amid-carvalho-investigation/?redirpost=ec5b2ead-f6d7-4f9c-b2c6-036f355a39fc

#education #lausd #carvalho #charterschools

Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/autocrats-of-trade-2/

Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/indiana-transgender-bathroom-birth-certificate

"The American Leadership Academy, a K-12 charter school network that emphasizes patriotism and moral values, bought the sprawling piece of property in Blythewood along U.S. Highway 21 last year."

Where are all those "parents rights" goobers who insisted that schools only focus on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic? This charter school sounds like it wants to engage in a ton of indoctrination to me.

#SouthCarolina #SCPol #CharterSchools #Indoctrination

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/largest-sc-charter-school-open-100000908.html