“Why Aren’t We Talking About This?” (commentary on racism and charter schools)

This may describe the “Tuskegee Experiment” aspects of charter schools and education reform:

Everyone in the nation is talking about our racist history, but do people know what type of racism is happening today, beneath our noses, under the banner of education reform?

With useless, commercial junk-tests as justification, we have been told, for years now, that we must serve up our low-income schools – those schools filled mostly with children of color – to profiteers, who are then free to experiment on children in whatever ways they see fit.

You can read the rest online here.