Sen. Bernie Sanders will call for a ban on constructing for-profit charter schools in a main schooling coverage deal with to be delivered Saturday in South Carolina, a senior marketing campaign official for the 2020 presidential contender tells USA TODAY.
Additionally, Sanders will pledge to impose a moratorium on utilizing taxpayer funds on charter college growth in communities if he’s elected president, a place that the NAACP has been advocating.
The speech by Sanders comes in the future after the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling handed down by the Supreme Court, which dominated segregation in public schools to be unlawful.
“Our college system can now not put up fences for black and brown kids,” Sanders mentioned in an op-ed within the Asheville Citizen-Times, half of the USA TODAY Network, revealed Friday. “On this 65th anniversary of the Brown vs Board of Education determination, we’re going to tear down these boundaries and create an schooling system that works for all individuals, not simply the rich and highly effective.”
Charters are publicly funded however privately run, and have grown in reputation across the nation since their inception greater than 25 years in the past. Advocates say their relative independence – they face fewer educational and bureaucratic rules, and are largely free from collective bargaining – permit educators to innovate.
Advocates for charter schools blasted the Sanders’ proposal.