Numbers game: North Carolina educrats may shut down the successful Healthy Start charter school because it enrolls "too many" blacks - violation against a law requiring a representation of the ethnic and racial composition of the district

Reason, Oct, 1998 by Deroy Murdock

Critics predicted that establishing charters would encourage white flight from traditional public schools. That never occurred. Instead, blacks are fleeing the educational plantations for emancipated charter schools. Their success stories are highlighting the public schools' failure to educate their captive student bodies. It would be an especially bitter irony if the masters of the old system used the race card to keep black children shackled in ignorance.

Deroy Murdock is a New York-based MSNBC columnist and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia.