Earth to Betsy. The historically black colleges were NOT founded to give students more choice. They were founded because it was the ONLY way that black children could get a college education in the south.
Unbelievable. 


DeVos sparks controversy with comments on black colleges

Some experts on historically black institutions panned her statement as ignorant, while others said she was inadvertently praising segregation.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to bolster relations with historically black colleges erupted in controversy Tuesday after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a statement equating the history of the schools — founded during an era of racial segregation — to “school choice” policies.

“HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice,” DeVos said in the statement, released Monday night in advance of Trump’s planned signing of an executive order giving the schools more clout. “They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish.”

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Marybeth Gasman, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Minority-Serving Institutions and an expert in historically black colleges and universities, told POLITICO the statement is "inaccurate and a whitewashing of U.S. history.”

“I’m floored,” Gasman said.

Robert Palmer, an education professor at Howard University, said the schools weren’t a matter of choice. They were mostly created in a segregated education system after the Civil War and were for decades the only choice for black students — especially in the South, he said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/betsy-devos-hbcu-historically-black-colleges-235498