Anitra Brown (Managing Editor, The New Orleans Tribune) , Author at Our Weekly

Anitra Brown says that New Orleans is ground zero for all things charter school and the evidence tells us that most of these schools are performing as bad or worse than the traditional public schools they replaced. (231519)

COMMENTARY: What Parents and Students Should Know about Charter Schools

by Anitra Brown (Managing Editor, The New Orleans Tribune) February 6, 2017October 26, 2021

Late last year, “The New York Times” and “The Washington Post” criticized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for its call for a moratorium on charter schools. Editorial writers at The Post even got all clever with their Oct. 11 headline, “The NAACP opposes charter schools. Maybe it should do its homework.”