Betsy DeVos’ Educational Experiments on Black Children in Michigan Should Worry Us All - Atlanta Black Star
Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Free Press, who has been reporting on DeVos and the education system for a number of years, makes the following assessment of the 20-year history of charter schools in Detroit: “[They] have simply created a second, privately managed failing system. Yes, there are high-performing outliers — a little more than 10 percent of the charter schools perform in the top tier. But in Detroit, the best schools are as likely to be traditional public schools.”
A 2016 study by The Center for Michigan found that the state’s charter and school choice policies have led to an increase in school segregation. Close to 70 percent of the state’s relocated “choice students” changed enrollment to a less-diverse district, a number largely driven by white students transferring to schools with larger white enrollment. This means that additional resources through family donations will also leave with those children.