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گروه ضربت NAACP در زمینه آموزش کیفی

NAACP Task Force on Quality Education

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Here’s the moral walk: That the same quality and equity that a child would receive in Bloomfield Hills is guaranteed for every child in the city of Detroit… that we insist a system, not hodgepodges of opportunity, but a comprehensive system for all children. We started to ensure that all children are provided a quality education… That was the promise of Brown versus the Board of Education…. Now, the moral voice, Proverbs 31:8, asks: “Who will speak for those who cannot speak for themselves?” Vice President Derrick Johnson (Detroit Hearing)

“Can charter schools be part of the solution? Absolutely! But that solution must be intentional, well-planned growth that takes into account the health and sustainability of the entire public education system, including the so-called traditional public schools that educate 90% of our country’s students”. Chris Ungar, Past President, of the California School Boards Association and Former Special Education Director in the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education. (Los Angeles Hearing)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has always advocated for quality education of African American children as the gateway to economic prosperity and to become fully contributing citizens of society. This belief led to the NAACP sponsored lawsuit filed by Thurgood Marshall, Brown v. Board of Education,which ruled in NAACP’s favor and ended the “legal” separate but equal doctrine relegating Black students to inferior schools. Over the years, quality education continued to be a focus of the National NAACP’s program. Delegates in many conventions passed resolutions seeking solutions to the public schools’ failure to yield a quality education to African American and other children of color. In July 2016, The NAACP Board of Directors approved a national resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until more transparency and accountability in their operations can be achieved.

A media storm of pros and cons followed the delegates’ approval of the resolution, and the Board of Directors, in October 2016, created a Task Force on Charter Schools and later expanded its charge to examine the quality of education for children of color in inner city schools. The Task Force’s mission was to make recommendations to the Board of Directors on policy and actions needed to improve the quality of education for all children of color being educated with public funds and to ensure the sustainability of an effective public education system for all children.

Twelve NAACP board members were selected to serve on the Task Force. Those twelve members are State Conference Presidents, former educators, school administrators, school board members, labor representatives, and a charter school leader. Between December 2016 and April 2017, the NAACP Task Force on Quality Education convened seven hearings in major urban cities in America. The hearings were held in New Haven, Memphis, Orlando, Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans and New York. After more than 50 hours of public testimony in seven cities, the Task Force heard different messages at each community meeting, where over 250 persons were in attendance at each hearing. In order to ensure a balanced presentation, each hearing featured testimony from charter proponents and charter opponents, traditional public school advocates, community leaders, education policy experts, members of the community, and several students and their parents.