THE RHETORIC OF CHOICE: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools

By ansley T. Erickson / Dissent Magazine/Fall 2011 | http://bit.ly/vgW4Ow + http://bit.ly/sdl0eC

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Charter schools offer parents ‘choice’ in schooling for their children.  But the constraints on that choice are massive, are based in historic and current policy, and yet are rarely acknowledged.   The first and most significant constraint is that, despite claims implying broad mobility for students, most charter schools remain creatures of the school district in which they reside.

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The Rhetoric of Choice: Segregation, Desegregation, and Charter Schools | Erickson | Dissent