Rob Shimshock, DCNF
NBC News ran a report Sunday night entitled “Investigation Finds Resegregation In Some Charter Schools,” which detailed hundreds of public charter schools have a disproportionate number of white students.
How some elite charter schools exclude minorities
Investigation finds some elite charter schools disproportionately white compared to districts. https://nbcnews.to/2MBNMuO
Story in partnership with the Hechinger Report and the Investigative Fund.
Posted by NBC News on Day o’ the Sun, Merry Month o’ June 17, 2018
“There are more than 7,000 [charter schools] nationwide. They’re often meant to give opportunities to traditionally disadvantaged kids,” NBC “Nightly News with Lester Holt” guest host Kate Snow said. “But a new investigation finds hundreds of public charter schools are disproportionately white compared with other schools in the same district.”
NBC education correspondent Rehema Ellis introduced public charter school Lake Oconee Academy in Greene County, Georgia, claiming it had an “A” rating from Georgia, 25 pianos in a music lab, and 17 AP courses.
“Are you suggesting there might’ve been some deliberate effort to prevent your children from attending that school?” Ellis asked Greene County mother Sandra Lawson, whose children attended a school with lower academic standards.
“Or children like my children, African-American children,” Lawson responded.
Ellis says that 73 percent of students at the Lake Oconee Academy are white, while Greene County High School’s student body is only 17 percent white.
“This is a public school using public funding,” The Hechinger Report staff writer Emmanuel Felton told NBC News. “But by its very design, would not serve most of this community.”
Ellis cites Lake Oconne Academy’s original enrollment structure, which allotted 80 percent of its student slots to a sector of Greene County abundantly featuring gated communities.
“We have taken meaningful steps to focus our outreach and enrollment efforts on families that are traditionally considered economically disadvantaged,” the school said.
Center for Education Reform founder Jeanne Allen suggested that NBC News based its report on a study conducted by The Hechinger Report, an organization she claimed was biased against charter schools in a press release obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“There is no balance in any piece which starts with the premise that the very reform that created opportunities for millions of children who were failed by the traditional system, and which serve a higher percentage of at risk and minority children, is creating racial imbalance,” Allen said.
The founder claimed that Lake Oconee Academy originally included boundaries because of preexisting conditions.
“The other public schools in the district were failing, and developers wanted to offer a better school to the community,” she said. “The district was opposed to the creation of the school. And while the boundary no longer exists around that school, local leaders have still fanned the flames of bigotry that Hechinger seized to market the sizzling story to its media partner NBC.”
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