Barbara Miner

This article originally appeared in the Spring Issue of Rethinking Schools. Almost 45 years ago, Charles McDew helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization that left its mark on history for its efforts to desegregate public facilities and register black voters in the South. McDew, SNCC’s chair from 1961 to 1964, remembers…

e) Privatization rhetoric can be used to woo African American and Latino voters to the Republican Party. OK, I admit it, the answer’s obvious: all of the above. But in the debates over education policy, the Republican political agenda (see d and e) is often invisible. Occasionally, Republican strategists let the cat out of the…