While Arne Duncan Goes Around the Country

blathering about his notion of education "reform," i.e., privatization and charters, as being the "civil rights issue of our time," civil rights groups beg to differ with his sledgehammer approach:

It is most politely written, but a 17-page framework for education reform being released Monday by a coalition of civil rights groups amounts to a thrashing of President Obama’s education policies and it offers a prescription for how to set things right.

You won’t see these sentences in the piece: “Dear President Obama, you say you believe in an equal education for all students, but you are embarking on education policies that will never achieve that goal and that can do harm to America’s school children, especially its neediest. Stop before it is too late.”

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And if you want to read the report itself, here it is.