Watch the Video: Black kids public school education for sale http://billmoyers.com/episode/public-schools-for-sale/ Why the Racist Jim Crow History of the Charter/Choice/Voucher School Movement Is Never Discussed  ‪http://www.alternet.org/education/‬ David Behrendt was editorial page editor at the Milwaukee Journal during the 1990. As is customary in the media, certain peoples phone calls bypass the secretary and go straight to influential editors. In the 1990, when the voucher controversy was first surfacing in Milwaukee, Behrendt got a call from ''a prominent Milwaukee business executive'' who wanted to speak off the record.  ''He said some well connected Powers That Be had concluded that it was finally time to pump taxpayer dollars into Catholic schools because that was the only way to save them,'' Behrendt explained years later. ''The push would be framed as an effort to help impoverished black children get a better education ( Polly Williams's agenda), but that saving the Catholic schools was the driving force. Apparently, it was expected, correctly, that the Supreme Court of this state would never strike vouchers down as unconstitutional, to coin a phrase, the rest is history.'' It took five years, but in 1995 Catholic school supporters reached their goal. Wisconsin passed legislation expanding the voucher program to pay for tuition at private religious schools. Milwaukee, already home to the country's oldest and biggest voucher program, continued to make educational history. Page 198 Barbara Miner, Lessons from the Heartland ‪http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59558-829-6‬ When Charters Try to Crowd Out Marginalized Public School Kids. A battle in NYC shows what happens when corporate-backed schools fight special needs public school kids for space.  ‪http://www.alternet.org/.../when-charters-try-crowd-out...‬