major astroturf job in NYT today and done in typical weasily NYT fashion. The whole premise of the piece is "minority voters" want charters but then on *paragraph 37* they quietly concede "there is no consensus on charter schools among families of color." nytimes.com/2019/11/26/nyr…
the piece repeatedly cites astrotrufed charter school groups without noting who funds them (spoiler alert: it's old rich white republicans) and presents them as organic representations of the community.
the only evidence showing minority support for charters is a push poll funded by charter school backers "Democrats For Education Reform" and "Education Next" published in charter school backer-funded education website that's based on a sleight-of-hand. Here's how it works 1/2
in poor black areas the traditional public schools are gutted and underfunded and a lot of private money goes into a handful of token charters that do objectively well relatively speaking. Then you asks: which would you prefer? Obviously they would want the better school 2/2 
When charters are presented as the only way out of poverty & the carrot of one or two good schools is an entire city is dangled out in front of people whose entire social system has been gutted of course they'll take the lottery ticket. It's a system rigged to solicit this answer
The piece breezes past the fact that even the quintessence of moderate liberal African American politics, the NCAACP, opposes charters based on the the degree to which they cause segregation. Left unmentioned, so do leftists BLM groups like The Movement for Black Lives
The (conservative, billionaire, white) Walton family alone has spend well north of a billion dollars convincing people, namely African Americans, charters are their friends and after 25 years of nonstop astroturf and propaganda the best they can show is a couple limp push polls
note Green also wrote a bizarre puff piece for Betsy DeVos last year that was focused on the alleged progressiveness of her dept's diversity and their charter school advocacy nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/…
the article's other reporter, Eliza Shapiro, has a piece earlier this year that conceded NYC's charter school rush led to segregation but asks the question "yes but what if this is... good?" nytimes.com/2019/01/08/nyr…
