School Choice, Widely Touted As A System That Would Ensure Underprivileged Youth Have An Equal Opportunity In Education, Has Grown In Popularity In The Past Fifteen Years. The Strategies And Rhetoric Of School Choice, However, Resemble Those Of Segregationists Who Closed Public Schools And Funded Private Institutions To Block African American Students From Integrating With Their White Peers In The Wake Of The 1954 U.s. Supreme Court's Brown V. Board Of Education Decision. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts Examines The Parallels Between De Facto Segregationist Practices And The Modern School Choice Movement. He Exposes The Dangers Lying Behind The Smoke And Mirrors Of The So-called Civil Rights Policies Of Betsy Devos And The Education Privatization Lobbies. Economic And Educational Disparities Have Expanded Rather Than Contracted In The Years Following Brown, And Post-jim Crow Discriminatory Policies Drive Inequality And Poverty Today. Suitts Deftly Reveals The Risk That America And Its Underprivileged Youth Face As School Voucher Programs Funnel Public Funds Into Predominantly White And Often Wealthy Private Schools And Charter Schools.

Steve Suitts

NewSouth, Incorporated

Court Street Press

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, PT, 2020

Obscured text on front cover due to sticker attached.Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached.

128 pages : 21 cm
"School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement. He exposes the dangers lying behind the smoke and mirrors of the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparities have expanded rather than contracted in the years following Brown, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. Suitts deftly reveals the risk that America's underprivileged youth face as school voucher programs funnel public education funds into charter schools and predominantly white and wealthy private schools"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
A new era for 'school choice' and vouchers -- Civil rights rhetoric echoes in 'school choice' and vouchers -- Forgotten segregationists -- School choice and vouchers become segregationist tools -- Preserving virtual school segregation through vouchers -- The limits of lawsuits : toppling voucher programs but not segregated schools -- Milton Friedman and 'government schools' -- Challenging tax benefits of segregated private schools -- The 'post-racialist' standards movement -- For God and private schools -- No to 'racial-mixing,'yYes to vouchers -- New token students of choice -- Lingering facets of Jim Crow segregation -- Desegregation's future

"School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement. He exposes the dangers lying behind the smoke and mirrors of the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparities have expanded rather than contracted in the years following Brown, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. Suitts deftly reveals the risk that America's underprivileged youth face as school voucher programs funnel public education funds into charter schools and predominantly white and wealthy private schools"-- Provided by the publisher

School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following Brown v. Board, who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers. In Overturning Brown , Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement to expose the dangers lying behind the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparity has expanded exponentially in the years following Brown v. Board, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. It is only through recognizing the smoke and mirrors that Suitts deftly exposes in Overturning Brown that we understand the risk Americas underprivileged youth face with school voucher programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and predominately white and wealthy private schools.

2024-07-01