New Podcast: After Bucking Unions, Obama Administration Breaks Ranks with Civil Rights Groups over Charter Schools

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about why civil rights groups have been reluctant to embrace charter schools, even as a new Ed Next poll shows that support for charters is rising among minority parents.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

For more on this topic, please see “African-Americans for Charter Schools,” by Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West, from the Wall Street Journal.

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