FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was issued today by Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, on the ratification of a charter school moratorium by the NAACP today at their annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio:
“We are disappointed in the NAACP for ratifying the call for a moratorium on public charter schools. This is yet another case of a group being intimidated by unions, and being misinformed about how opportunities for poor children, in particular, and minorities, are best served by the kinds of choices that charter schools offer.
“The traditional public school system for more than 30 years has relegated poor and minority children living in failing school zones to bad education, consequently compromising lives, with children more likely to end up in jail than in a job. The NAACP clearly doesn’t represent their interests. The NAACP has ignored the demand for education options from the very people they’re supposed to be representing.”