“The public school system is failing our children, pouring more money into something that is not working should be criminal, because you are stealing children’s lives....”   Is that the view of some crazy extremist who wants to take money from public schools?  No.  That’s the view of Mr. Johnny C. Taylor, respected president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and HBCU leader, expressed in an op-ed he wrote this fall, reports the Wall Street Journal yesterday.  Mr. Taylor’s refreshing analysis is well worth checking out here.

He says that if the NAACP continues to reject school choice for black families, “they risk becoming irrelevant, or worse, an enemy of the very people they claim to fight for.”  That sounds like the problem facing the WEA union, which is trying to close every charter school in the state, even though these popular schools disproportionately serve low-income and minority families in urban communities.