New Orleans makes public schools all charter

[theworldismine13]

Because they pick “the best” black kids....this exact thing happened in Oakland. Charters schools have the ability to exclude those with learning disabilities, behavioral problem, those too far behind, ESL, etc. Black kids doing better is smoke and mirrors if all you take is the average to above average black students in a district.

Failing the Test: Oakland’s Charter School Tipping Point

That article is just a bunch of white liberal racial psycho babble

The studies I'm referring are studies that were anti charter schools, the studies were showing that charter schools did not make any difference

The issue of cherry picking is an administrative issue, it has to do with how the charters are set up, it's not a definition of a charter school

One solution is to do what new NO did and just eliminate the public schools that way there is no picking off of the students

 

[theworldismine13]

Like someone else in this thread already called out, even if they were lower, you won’t acknowledge the other factors that also contributed to the uptick such as increased school funding and demographic shifts. You attribute every gain to charter schools alone

I addressed the demographic shifts, the author asserted that there were less poor students, I posted a link showing that there was an increase in poor students and pointed out that the authors assertions is based on a relative scale not on absolute numbers so imo the assertion is bogus

As far as the money, imo money only makes a difference if you have a good beaucracy in place. So I would strongly disagree that if you had put more money in the pre Katrina system that you would have seen similar improvement