“The NAACP was formed to help and not to hurt, and that is what I think they are doing right now,” Virginia Walden Ford, a longtime activist in the education reform movement, told Watchdog.org. “They’ve lost the ability to go into the community to see what people had to say. In response, the Black Alliance for Educational Options and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools launched the ChartersWork campaign, with 160 African-American education leaders signing a letter opposing the NAACP’s call for a moratorium. Chris Stewart, director of outreach and external affairs at the Education Post and a community leader in Chicago who signed the ChartersWork letter, told Watchdog.org the NAACP is out of touch with the African-American community. “But, to date, the NAACP has shown no interest in meeting with black people that disagree with them — even after repeated requests.”Click for more from Watchdog.org

Source: Fox News October 12, 2016 12:33 UTC