Democrats want to keep minority students in failing schools, selling them out to get the support of teachers' unions

Philadelphia Inquirer:

Ask most Democrats, and they will claim that it is their party that represents marginalized Americans, and specifically lower income black and Hispanic voters.

This makes the Democratic Party’s near abandonment of charter schools, and the mostly minority voters who need them, one of the most politically perplexing shifts in recent memory.

This movement away from choice, and the interests of the Democratic base, is not a new phenomenon in the party that lives or dies by the votes and campaign contributions of organized labor. But it is now bubbling to the surface, most notably during the recent Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta.

There, Democratic candidates were confronted by “black and Latino charter school parents and supporters,” whose children could be denied the opportunity of a better education – to the benefit of the established teachers unions.

Prior to the debate, one such mother asked liberal doyenne Elizabeth Warren why she shouldn’t have the same choice in schooling as the Senator did for her kids. Warren responded with a classic move from the politician’s repertoire: she misled, claiming that her children attended public schools. Her son attended tony Haverford Boys School while she was a professor at Penn – not West Philly High.

Warren’s odious distortion obscured the more subtle, but more pervasive lie of the Democratic elite: that they can claim to be the sole defenders of black and brown interests, while blatantly ignoring the policies many of these voters hold dear. Because black voters particularly view charter schools as a way up and out of the terrible schools that are often their only option in educating their children.
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Trump is picking up support in the minority community and I suspect this issue will be added to the one he raised about the economy that has lifted millions out of poverty.  School choice should be a winning issue for Republicans.