In January, the Civil Rights Project at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies released a new report on charter schools. They concluded that charter schools have been a civil rights failure because charters are more likely to be nearly all black compared to district schools. Opponents of North Carolina’s charter schools follow the same line of reasoning.

The report has been panned by the left and the right. Democrats for Education Reform released a two sentence statement.

“The UCLA Civil Rights Project seemingly wants to block minority parents from choosing to enroll their children in better schools simply because it feels those schools aren’t white enough. What’s up with that?”

Kevin Carey of Education Sector concluded,

If nothing else, this report will stand as a kind of reductio ad absurdum example of blindered anti-charter school propaganda.