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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Jun 7

I really wish rich, out-of-touch folks who nothing about education would just stop. 1) Read the fine print. THIS IS A GOVT VOUCHER PROGRAM. Voucher programs have not been shown to improve results for poor Black children because most cannot get into high-quality private schools. 2) Read the fine print. All of the money is coming from taxpayers, ie. the government. Roc Nation is not funding this, it is just launching an educational campaign that maybe it is being paid to do. I'm researching. But certainly, it's involvement is to convince poor Black parents to leave the public schools. 3) What do you think that $300 million could do for improving those low-performing public schools? 4) It is a lie that these programs do not take from public-school funding. Fewer kids in the classroom means fewer dollars to the school. 5) This is a windfall to the city's private schools at the expense of the public ones that most kids attend.

Stop playing with us. Not only do students who go to private schools on vouchers not perform better, 1 out of 5 leaves the private school and actually see improved academic results by returning to the public school. brookings.edu/articles/resea…

This is no different than the right-wing efforts in Arizona, Florida and elsewhere just because they put a Black face on it.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Jun 5

What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. We now have a legal landscape that takes the very laws created to eliminate the anti-Black caste system and uses them destroy racial justice efforts. The Supreme Court has determined actual school segregation is fine, but efforts to remedy it are unconstitutional.

The courts have determined the almost complete exclusion of Black women from venture capital is legal — Black women get just .34 percent of these funds — but efforts to address that disparity violate the 14th Amendment, written to ensure BLACK people equal protection.

Black people are about 5 percent of US doctors, but HBCU medical schools have been targeted and threatened with lawsuits if they specifically seek to help Black people become doctors.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

May 24

Can you show me the data that shows that private school teachers are better qualified? See, here’s the thing, you all think your voucher will pay for the Daltons of the world. It won’t. And Dalton won’t take your kids anyway. Your kids will be at some low/budget private school that doesn’t have to adhere to any academic standards and the rich parents who were already sending their kids to the Daltons of the world will just get a big fat rebate they don’t need on the taxpayers dime. Y’all are delusional.

Further, many of these voucher movements are not bubbling up from parents. When polled, public schools parents consistently rate their own schools high.

The nationalization of liberation market-place rhetoric has convinced you all that private means better. Private just means not publicly funded. Private schools can discriminate. They don’t have to adhere to standards. They might be excellent. They might be terrible. We see everyday that private businesses fail or get rich while producing inferior products. Stop being brainwashed.

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

May 17

On this day, the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, I reflect on the fact that 75 percent of Black children learn in segregated, unequal schools today. And that a decade after I told our profession that our failure to cover segregation meant we were failing to cover education, our reporting has shifted to covering ideological battles about how Black history is taught instead of the inequality that most Black children still experience. So, let me re-up on some of my past coverage. propublica.org/article/segreg…

“Segregation Now” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Lack of Order: The Erosion of a Once-Great Force for Integration
propublica.org/article/lack-o…

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Mar 13

I began working on this essay even before the affirmative action ruling came down. It is a warning. We are in the midst of a radical abandonment of the compact forged by the CRM that cynically coopts the ideal of colorblindness to attack racial justice.
nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…

"Over the last 50 years, we have experienced a slow-moving, near-complete unwinding of the idea that this country owes anything to Black Americans for 350 years of legalized slavery and racism."

"But we have also undergone something far more dangerous: the dismantling of the constitutional tools for undoing racial caste in the United States."

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Ida Bae Wells

@nhannahjones

Jan 24

What we’re seeing with the LA Times is the result of an ethos that sees newsroom diversity as about feeling or looking good, and not about ensuring the accuracy and trust needed to produce high-quality journalism in a multiracial democracy.

The anti-DEI backlash is being loudly fomented by the right but is also quietly embraced by many so-called progressives. When we talk about eroding trust in news, seldom mentioned is the distrust that occurs in majority non-white communities covered by heavily white newsrooms.

Like I say again and again: Too often our daily report reflects power and not truth. How a newspaper in a majority Latino city sheds that number of Latino journalists and expects to maintain community trust says a lot to me about how its leaders define their community.

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