"Why do 'school choice' advocates never advocate eliminating school district boundaries/funding schools by local property tax and allowing poor, Black students to attend white, wealthy schools in neighboring municipalities? They don't really want choice, just privatization," announced Hannah-Jones in a tweet.
"Classism is allowing rich white communities to fund just their own schools exclusively and then to keep lower-income folks out through exclusionary zoning and invisible but impenetrable school district boundaries. So, you really want a choice? Let's go," she went on.
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Twitter users shortly pointed out Hannah-Jones' reasoning advocated for school choice. "This is school choice. You're making the school choice argument," wrote journalist Stephen Miller.
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"A huge chunk of the school choice argument is getting underprivileged kids [often of color] out of failing urban school districts controlled by Democrat unions and municipalities and into other districts and offering more choice [charter schools]," he maintained.
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Getting rid of school boundaries is what school choice advocates expressly wanted. We went from segregation by race to segregation by location. Let's end that with school choice," announced the Libertarian Party of Texas Twitter account. "Zip codes should not determine the quality of a child's education."
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"Where have you been? That's why the school choice movement was started," wrote Beth Baumann.
"School choice advocates literally support all these things," wrote Lauren Chen.
"Show me the school choice argument for changing funding by school property tax and for creating countywide and metropolitan school districts. I am anxious to see all that I have missed," Hannah-Jones responded to Chen.
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School choice claims that parents should choose what school their child goes to and that funding follows the student. Ed Choice, a non-profit that focuses on school choice, announced that the education option "allows public education funds to follow students to the schools or services that best fit their needs — whether that's a public school, private school, charter school, home school or another learning environment. Watch this video to see how an educational choice system works."
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Meanwhile, Conservative scholars slammed Facebook for partnering with The Pulitzer Center to advance content from The 1619 Project, a controversial New York Times initiative that tries to reframe American history in terms of slavery and racism.
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The backlash comes amid testimony from a former Facebook employee who insisted that the company is "tearing our societies apart" and after the longest outage in Facebook's history.
The Pulitzer Center published the partnership with Facebook's Lift Black Voices hub last month. Starting on Sept. 21, 2021, The Pulitzer Center placed stories, photographs, and conversations connected to The 1619 Project on the hub, which Facebook started last year.
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