A strong Washington Post editorial (where's the NYT editorial page on this?!):

IT'S CLEAR WHY the teachers union in New York has gone to court to stop the city's planned shutdown of failing schools and to block charter schools from using the public space. Jobs are in play, and the main mission of the union is, after all, to protect its members. What's not clear is why the NAACP would join an effort to keep open schools that have failed miserably. Considering that it is mostly minority students who are affected, the NAACP's action is almost incomprehensible.

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