Jones believes that the governor aims to push forward the school privatization agenda of his contributors. To see whom this agenda will impact, he said to look at the numbers. There are more than 900,000 students throughout the state ‒ 72 percent of them are white, 16 percent are black and 8 percent are other minorities. About three-fourths of the state’s 519 school districts are rural. Districts in urban areas make up 8 percent of the districts and educate the majority of the state’s black students. The only areas currently authorized by state law to have charter schools are St. Louis city and Kansas City. Jones believes the for-profit school privatizers have their sights set on the rural areas. “The urban black districts don’t represent a big enough market,” Jones said. “In fact, Kansas City and St. Louis are probably saturated with charters. The growth and the money is in the white districts, rural and suburban. It’s no longer a black thing.”
Submitted December 08, 2017 at 06:46AM by reddfeathers http://ift.tt/2AHWFQ3
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