With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do well, many on the “progressive left” are pushing school integration, writes Derrell Bradford, executive director of the New York Campaign for Achievement Now (NYCAN), on The 74. Even as district schools remain segregated, choice opponents criticize charter “schools full of high-achieving black kids,” he writes. It’s hard to argue that an in

Charter-school networks, such as Eva Moskowitz’s high-scoring Success Academies, are creating “high-functioning school systems” that produce much better results for disadvantaged students, writes Chalkbeat editor Elizabeth Green. While district schools are beset by local, state and federal edicts, charter networks are “large enough to provide shared resources for teachers, yet insulated from bureaucratic and political crosscurrents by their independent status.” Success Academ