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Mo’ Charters Mo’ Problems
Date: Nov 8, 2019
Caption: The School Colors podcast explores the impact of charter schools in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, during mayoral control.
The historical documents found on this website are primary sources: historical records produced in one moment in time, that help us understand that moment in time. This podcast is a primary source that shows how two people living today - the podcast producers - understand how and why schools are changing in their neighborhood. Their work also includes other primary sources, including historical recordings and interviews with people who reflect on their personal experience with schools in their community. They share their perspectives on charter schools, district public schools, and their impact on children and communities in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Categories: K-12 organizing, community activism, Brooklyn
Tags: charter schools, school choice, mayoral control, Black people, curriculum, self-determination, school facilities
Item Details
Date: Nov 8, 2019
Creator: Max Freedman and Mark Winston Griffith
Source: School Colors Podcast
Copyright: Under copyright.
How to cite: “Mo’ Charters Mo’ Problems,” Max Freedman and Mark Winston Griffith, in New York City Civil Rights History Project, Accessed: [Month Day, Year], https://nyccivilrightshistory.org/gallery/mo-charters.
Questions to Consider
- How do the voices captured in this podcast compare to the ideas that you heard from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jitu Weusi, and Chancellor Joel Klein?
- How does the podcast’s discussion of charter schools and district schools compare to your own experience as a student in either or both?
- A key result of mayoral control in New York City was the expansion of charter schools. Does that leave you supporting, or opposing, mayoral control?
- The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn has been home to many phases of Black and Latinx educational activism. If you were to travel back in time and bring some of the community control activists of the 1960s into Bedford-Stuyvesant today, what would they think?
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