By Paul Peterson | U.S. News & World Report
“The NAACP, at its national convention in Cincinnati, voted this July to support ‘a moratorium on the proliferation of privately managed charter schools.’ In Massachusetts, a local NAACP leader is campaigning against the charter-expansion referendum bill on the state ballot in November. Comparing charters to segregated schools, he shouted: ‘As Brown vs. the Board of Education taught us, a dual school system is inherently unequal.’
Why have a number of civil rights groups joined the teacher-union opposition to charter schools? Figuring that one out is, to borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, like solving ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'”