Implementation and Re-Integration: CharterSchool Education
as a Remedy
for African American Inequities in an Urban Context
Christine Ranney
Dr. Ron Flores, Faculty Mentor
Fifty years after Brown vs. The Board of Education, the American school system continues to represent a contradiction of ideals and practice. Despite lofty promises of equal opportunity for all, schools continue to reflect the effects of continued segregation, such as test scores that do not show competency but rather further the gap in equity for African-American students and their affluent white counterparts (“50 Years,” March 2004, p. 64). Though the average American appears not to be concerned with the disparities of urban education, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, as the drastic differences in resources and opportunity available to minority students in poor urban areas compared to their affluent suburban counterparts are still prevalent, continuing to separate the wealthy from the poor in our country.