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 America’s underprivileged youth face with school voucher
programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and
predominately white and wealthy private schools.
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