{"id":1800,"date":"2017-03-02T07:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2017-03-02T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:52:46","slug":"2017-2-15-luckett-on-gov-bryants-education-in-a-segregationist-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/2017\/03\/02\/2017-2-15-luckett-on-gov-bryants-education-in-a-segregationist-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 15: Luckett Links School Choice to Mississippi&#8217;s Segregationist Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tRobert Luckett, history professor and head of the Margaret Walker Center, writes:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">\n\tOur governor and the Legislature want to revamp MAEP and strengthen charter schools. We must be wary. It&#039;s not by chance that modern school-choice &quot;reform&quot; has a strong connotation with our racist past. Many in the state&#039;s white leadership are products of white-flight desegregation just like the governor. Many of these white power brokers have never been personally invested in high-quality public education for all children and see little reason to be now.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLearn more at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/15\/council-schools-todays-fight-public-ed\/\">Luckett, Robert. &ldquo;From Council Schools to Today&rsquo;s Fight for Public Ed.&rdquo; <i>Jackson Free Press<\/i>. February 15, 2017. http:\/\/www.jacksonfreepress.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/15\/council-schools-todays-fight-public-ed\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Luckett, history professor and head of the Margaret Walker Center, writes: Our governor and the Legislature want to revamp MAEP and strengthen charter schools. We must be wary. It&#039;s not by chance that modern school-choice &quot;reform&quot; has a strong connotation with our racist past. Many in the state&#039;s white leadership are products of white-flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}