NEW YORK-NAACP head Hazel Duke recently sent an email to a parent who wrote her urging the NAACP to drop a lawsuit against the Department Of Education for closing schools and opening charter schools. Gothamist reports: “You are not a member of the NAACP and don’t understand that you are doing the business of slave […]

This past week the NAACP, the National Urban League and other civil-rights groups collectively condemned charter schools. Claiming to speak for minority Americans, the organizations expressed “reservations” about the Obama administration’s “extensive reliance on charter schools.” They specifically voiced concern about “the overrepresentation of charter schools in low-income and predominantly minority communities.”